When working with Arrays there are normally a few tasks that you tend to repeat and the functions are not that evident from the names alone. I created a helper object which allows you to convert a JSON string to objects and store them into a array.

When developing applications for Facebook there are a few pitfall that every developer should know about:

Facebook

• is not Reliable
• is very Restrictive
• documentation is all over the place
• has quite a few bugs
• fixes bugs regularly and also make more bugs at the cost of fixing one

After reading that you might wonder why should I develop for Facebook well:

When creating a plugin for any open source system it is always good to check if what you have in mind is already created and also a good starting point is to check out other plugins already made for the system. My first Frog CMS plugin came about while browsing the forum and seeing a discussion about tags. The original plugin was created by someone else but in its early stage I joined in the thread and improved on what was originally created. Â In the end Tagger was the product of the that thread.

Tagger was necessary for the original "The Hub" that was built on Frog CMS, the articles that were created on there needed a way to organise them. Now lets get started with how to approach making plugins for Frog CMS.