Awesome CakePHP !Awesome (https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg) (https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) A curated list of amazingly awesome CakePHP 5.x+ plugins, resources and shiny things. If you are looking for previous CakePHP resources please visit: - the CakePHP 2.x version (https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/awesome-cakephp/tree/cake2) of this awesome list - the CakePHP 3.x version (https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/awesome-cakephp/tree/cake3) of this awesome list - the CakePHP 4.x version (https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/awesome-cakephp/tree/cake4) of this awesome list - this wiki with a list of not-yet upgraded plugins (https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/awesome-cakephp/wiki#plugins-not-yet-upgraded-from-2x-to-3x) Additional lists you might find useful: - CakePHP Plugins (https://plugins.cakephp.org) - Awesome PHP (https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php) - Awesome Awesomeness (https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness) ▐ For those wondering; this list differs from plugins.cakephp.org by supporting ▐ plugin subparts (instead of only the whole plugin/repo), more granular ▐ grouping and the primary focus on task-specific functionality. Table of Contents - Plugins (#plugins) - **APM** (#apm)  - **Architecture** (#architecture)  - **Asset Management** (#asset-management)  - **Auditing / Logging** (#auditing--logging)  - **Authentication and Authorization** (#authentication-and-authorization) - **Caching** (#caching)  - **Code Analysis** (#code-analysis)  - **Debugging** (#debugging)  - **Email** (#email)  - **File Manipulation** (#file-manipulation)  - **Filtering and Validation** (#filtering-and-validation)  - **Geolocation** (#geolocation)  - **I18n** (#i18n)  - **Imagery** (#imagery)  - **Libs** (#libs)  - **Markup** (#markup)  - **Migration** (#migration)  - **Miscellaneous** (#miscellaneous)  - **Navigation** (#navigation)  - **NoSQL** (#nosql)  - **Notifications** (#notifications)  - **ORM / Database / Datamapping** (#orm--database--datamapping)  - **PDF** (#pdf)  - **Queue** (#queue)  - **REST and API** (#rest-and-api)  - **Search** (#search)  - **Security** (#security)  - **SEO** (#seo)  - **Skeleton** (#skeleton)  - **Social** (#social)  - **Templating** (#templating)  - **Testing** (#testing)  - **Third Party APIs** (#third-party-apis)  - Software (#software) - **Development Environment** (#development-environment) - Web Applications (#web-applications) - **CMS and applications built on CakePHP** (#cms-and-applications-built-on-cakephp) - **Demo** (#demo)  - Resources (#resources) - **Help** (#help)  - **CakePHP Websites** (#cakephp-websites)  - **CakePHP Books and Articles** (#cakephp-books-and-articles)  - **CakePHP Videos** (#cakephp-videos)  - **CakePHP Tutorials** (#cakephp-tutorials)  - **CakePHP Reading and Listening** (#cakephp-reading-and-listening) - **CakePHP Internals Reading** (#cakephp-internals-reading)  - Conferences (#conferences) - Contributing (#contributing)  Plugins APM Plugins for Application Performance Monitoring. Architecture - Burzum/CakeServiceLayer plugin (https://github.com/burzum/cakephp-service-layer) - Service layer and domain/business model implementation. Asset Management Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets. - AssetCompress plugin (https://github.com/markstory/asset_compress) - A complete asset manager for CakePHP. - AssetMix plugin (https://github.com/ishanvyas22/asset-mix) - Provides integration with Laravel Mix (https://laravel-mix.com) asset compilation. - ViteHelper plugin (https://github.com/brandcom/cakephp-vite) - Provides integration with Vite (https://vite.dev/) asset compilation. Auditing / Logging Plugins for auditing and logging. - AuditStash plugin (https://github.com/lorenzo/audit-stash) - Flexible and rock solid audit log tracking. - DatabaseLog plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/CakePHP-DatabaseLog) - Simple and stand-alone logging to database instead of files. - Muffin/Footprint plugin (https://github.com/UseMuffin/Footprint) - Plugin to allow passing currently logged in user to model layer. - Version plugin (https://github.com/josegonzalez/cakephp-version) - A plugin that facilitates versioned database entities. Authentication and Authorization Plugins and libraries for implementing authentication and authorization. - ADmad/SocialAuth plugin (https://github.com/ADmad/cakephp-social-auth) - A plugin which allows you to authenticate using social providers like Facebook/Google/Twitter etc. using SocialConnect/auth (https://github.com/SocialConnect/auth) social  sign on library. - ApiTokenAuthenticator plugin (https://github.com/rrd108/api-token-authenticator) - A simple token authentication plugin for CakePHP REST APIs. - Authentication plugin (https://github.com/cakephp/authentication) - Official CakePHP authentication middleware plugin. - Authorization plugin (https://github.com/cakephp/authorization) - Official CakePHP authorization stack. - CakeDC/Users plugin (https://github.com/CakeDC/users) - Complete user management (admin panel, remember me, etc), Social login (FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Instagram), RBAC, API and more. - TinyAuth plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-tinyauth) - Authentication and role-based (single/multi) authorization as very light-weight approach. - Tools:Passwordable (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-tools) - Containing Passwordable behavior (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-tools/blob/master/docs/Behavior/Passwordable.md) for a DRY approach on password hashing. - TwoFactorAuth plugin (https://github.com/andrej-griniuk/cakephp-two-factor-auth) - Allows two factor authentication using Google Authenticator or similar app to generate one-time codes. Based on RobThree/TwoFactorAuth  (https://github.com/RobThree/TwoFactorAuth) library. Caching Plugins for caching data. - Cache plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-cache) - For caching views (HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ...) as static cache files. - CakeDC/CachedRouting plugin (https://github.com/CakeDC/cakephp-cached-routing) - Provides a cached version of the RoutingMiddleware to improve the load time of routes. Code Analysis Plugins for analyzing, parsing and manipulation codebases. - cakedc/cakephp-phpstan (https://github.com/CakeDC/cakephp-phpstan) - A PHPStan extension to resolve CakePHP magic around getter return types for the static analyzer. - IdeHelper plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-ide-helper) - Helps to make IDE support better by adding annotations to your existing code similar to what baking does to new code. - IdeHelperExtra plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-ide-helper-extra) - Useful IdeHelper addons for other plugins or custom use cases. - lordsimal/cakephp-psalm (https://github.com/LordSimal/cakephp-psalm) - A Psalm extension to resolve CakePHP magic around getter return types for the static analyzer. - TestHelper plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-test-helper) - Provides testing enhancements and TDD support as browser backend. Debugging Plugins for debugging and local development. - AssociationsDebugger plugin (https://github.com/zunnu/associations-debugger) - A plugin that draws your model associations as diagram. - CakephpWhoops plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-whoops) - PHP errors and exceptions for cool kids with filp/whoops (https://github.com/filp/whoops). - DebugKit plugin (https://github.com/cakephp/debug_kit) - The de-facto standard for debugging. - Execution order (https://github.com/dereuromark/executionorder) - A demo app to display the execution order of files, methods and callbacks. - Sentry plugin (https://github.com/lordsimal/cakephp-sentry) A plugin to seamlessly integrate Sentry for errors and exceptions. - Setup plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-setup) - A lightweight setup plugin containing debugging and maintenance tools. Email Plugins for sending and parsing email. - Queue plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-queue) - A dependency-free queue-based mail solution using Mailer/Email class, allowing re-queue on (network) failure. - SendGrid plugin (https://github.com/sprintcube/cakephp-sendgrid) - Email transport plugin for sending email via SendGrid API. File Manipulation Plugins for file manipulation. - FileStorage plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-file-storage) - Flexible file storage and upload plugin. - Josegonzalez/Upload plugin (https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/cakephp-upload) - A customisable plugin that uses Flysystem (https://flysystem.thephpleague.com/) to write to multiple backends (Dropbox, FTP, S3, Local, etc.). Filtering and Validation Plugins for filtering and validating data. - see Cake/Localized plugin below. - see Tools plugin below. Geolocation Plugins for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes. - Geo plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-geo) - Containing Geocoder behavior (https://www.dereuromark.de/2012/06/12/geocoding-with-cakephp/) and GoogleMaps helper (https://www.dereuromark.de/2010/12/21/googlemapsv3-cakephp-helper/). I18n Plugins for I18n (Internationalization) and L10n (Localization). - ADmad/I18n plugin (https://github.com/ADmad/cakephp-i18n) - A plugin with I18n related tools. - Cake/Localized plugin (https://github.com/cakephp/localized) - Localized validation and ready-to-use translation PO files. - Translate plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-translate) - Translate your translations in the backend with ease. Imagery Plugins for manipulating images. - ADmad/Glide plugin (https://github.com/ADmad/cakephp-glide) - A plugin for using Glide (https://glide.thephpleague.com/) image manipulation library. - QrCodePlugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-qrcode/) - Easily render SVG/PNG QR Codes for your app. Libs Useful libraries or tools that don't fit in any of the other categories. - Chronos (https://github.com/cakephp/chronos) - A simple standalone DateTime API extension (successor of Carbon). - Composer Installers (https://github.com/composer/installers) - A multi framework Composer library installer. - Composer (https://getcomposer.org/)/Packagist (https://packagist.org/) - A package and dependency manager. - Graphviz (https://github.com/alexandresalome/graphviz) - A Graphviz library. - Rocketeer (https://github.com/rocketeers/rocketeer) - PHP task runner and deployment package. Markup Plugins for working with markup. - Markup plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-markup) - Allows to use PHP or JS based syntax highlighting. Migration Plugins and resources around migration and upgrading. - Migrations plugin (https://github.com/cakephp/migrations) - (DB) Migration plugin. - Upgrade app (https://github.com/cakephp/upgrade) - Official upgrade app for 3.x=>4.x and 4.x=>5.x. - Upgrade app (extended) (https://github.com/dereuromark/upgrade) - An extended upgrade app for 3.x=>4.x and some 5.x snippets. - Upgrade/Migration Guide (https://book.cakephp.org/5/en/appendices.html) - Official migration guide. Miscellaneous Misc plugins and libraries. - Ajax plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-ajax) - A plugin to ease handling AJAX requests. - CakeDC/Enum plugin (https://github.com/CakeDC/enum) - A plugin to add enumeration list support to your app. - CakeDto plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-dto) - Quickly generate useful data transfer objects for your app (mutable/immutable), replacing messy arrays and leveraging your IDE through typehinting and autocomplete. - Calendar plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-calendar) - For generating basic calendars. Includes IcalView for ICS calendar file generation. - Feedback plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-feedback) - Allow visitors to send quick and easy feedback incl. a screenshot via sidebar form. - Flash plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-flash) - More powerful flash messages for your application. - Inertia plugin (https://github.com/CakeDC/cakephp-inertia) - Plugin for connecting a Vue 3 app and use an API interface using a middleware. - OPCache Preloader (https://github.com/cnizzardini/cakephp-preloader) - An OPCache Preloader for CakePHP applications.  - Setup:Maintenance (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-setup/blob/master/docs/Maintenance/Maintenance.md) - Maintenance shell to go into maintenance mode for all requests with optional IP whitelisting. - Shim plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-shim) - A plugin containing useful shims and improvements as basis for your application. - Tools plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-tools) - Containing lots of useful helpers, behaviors, components, commands, helpers, libs and more.   Navigation Tools for building navigation structures. - Icings/Menu plugin (https://github.com/icings/menu) - A KnpMenu (https://github.com/KnpLabs/KnpMenu) seasoned menu plugin for CakePHP. NoSQL Plugins for working with "NoSQL" backends. Notifications Plugins for working with notification software. ORM / Database / Datamapping Plugins that implement object-relational mapping or data-mapping techniques. - ADmad/Sequence plugin (https://github.com/ADmad/cakephp-sequence) - Behavior for maintaining ordered list of records. - CakeDecimal plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-decimal) - A value object approach on handling decimals. - Duplicatable plugin (https://github.com/riesenia/cakephp-duplicatable) - Behavior for duplicating entities including related data. - Lampager/Cake plugin (https://github.com/lampager/lampager-cakephp) - Rapid pagination without using OFFSET. - Muffin/Orderly plugin (https://github.com/usemuffin/orderly) - Allows setting default order for your tables. - Muffin/Trash plugin (https://github.com/usemuffin/trash) - Soft-delete behavior for CakePHP. - Itosho/EasyQuery plugin (https://github.com/itosho/easy-query) - Behavior for easily generating some complicated queries like (bulk) insert/upsert etc. - Icings/Partitionable plugin (https://github.com/icings/partitionable) - Partitionable associations allowing for basic limiting per group. PDF Plugins and software for working with PDF files. - CakePdf plugin (https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/CakePdf) - A plugin around PDF generation. Queue Plugins for working with event and task queues. - Queue plugin (https://github.com/cakephp/queue) - CakePHP core queue system for the php-queue (https://php-enqueue.github.io) queue library. - Queue plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-queue) - A minimal and dependency-free queue solution. - QueueScheduler plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-queue-scheduler) - A dependency-free crontab-like scheduler as DB driven solution and addon to Queue (dereuromark) plugin. REST and API Plugins and web tools for developing REST-ful APIs. - CRUD plugin (https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/crud) - CakePHP Application development on steroids - rapid prototyping / scaffolding & production-ready code. - CakeDC/Api plugin (https://github.com/CakeDC/cakephp-api) - All-in-one solution to provide a complete API. It includes versioning, renderers, CRUD, authentication, extensions (paginate, filter, HATEOAS), and much more. - FractalTransformerView plugin (https://github.com/andrej-griniuk/cakephp-fractal-transformer-view) - A plugin which allows using Fractal transformers (https://fractal.thephpleague.com/transformers/) for your API output. - MixerApi (https://mixerapi.com) - Streamline development of modern RESTful APIs for your team's CakePHP project. - SwaggerBake plugin (https://github.com/cnizzardini/cakephp-swagger-bake) - This plugin automatically builds OpenAPI from your existing models and routes for display in Swagger and Redoc. Search Plugins and software for indexing and performing search queries on data. - Cake/ElasticSearch plugin (https://github.com/cakephp/elastic-search) - Alternative ORM using Elasticsearch (https://www.elastic.co/) as its backend. - CakeDC/SearchFilter plugin (https://github.com/CakeDC/search-filter) - Powerful and flexible solution for implementing advanced search functionality. Provides a robust set of tools for creating dynamic, user-friendly search interfaces with  minimal effort. - PlumSearch plugin (https://github.com/skie/plum_search) - Implements custom, flexible and extendable search strategies. Implements PRG pattern. - Search plugin (https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/search) - Provides easy searching/filtering for paginated views using PRG pattern. - Tags plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-tags) - For tagging and finding tagged records. Security Plugins and information around security, preventing vulnerabilities and protection against XSS and alike. - Captcha plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-captcha) - Simple, unobtrusive and extendable captcha solution providing by default an image based math captcha. - Expose plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-expose) - Expose entities through additional UUIDs instead of their AIID primary keys to obfuscate those IDs and data associated with these numerically ordered values. - Muffin/Obfuscate plugin (https://github.com/usemuffin/obfuscate) - Primary key obfuscation/shortening using UUIDs, HashIds, Optimus, Tiny and/or custom obfuscation strategies. - Muffin/Throttle plugin (https://github.com/usemuffin/throttle) - A plugin for rate limiting (API) requests. - Recaptcha plugin (https://github.com/ctlabvn/Recaptcha) - Simple, lightweight Google Recaptcha v2. SEO Search Engine Optimization. - Muffin/Slug plugin (https://github.com/UseMuffin/Slug) - A plugin for generating slugs and finding records by slug. Uses a pluggable architecture which allows using your own slug generator class. - Tools:Slugged (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-tools) - Containing Slugged behavior to auto-generate URL-compatible slugs from titles. Skeleton Plugins and repositories around app skeletons. - App template (https://github.com/cakephp/app) - An empty CakePHP project for use with composer. - BS flavored App template (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-app) - An empty CakePHP project with BS5 and FontAwesome out of the box. Social Plugins around social features. - Comments plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-comments) - Allows users to comment records, supporting different formats. - Favorites plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-favorites) - Allows users to star/like/favor records. - Ratings plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-ratings) - Allows users to rate records and displays ratings. Templating Plugins for templating and lexing. - Bake plugin (https://github.com/cakephp/bake) - Provides code generation functionality. - BootstrapUI plugin (https://github.com/friendsofcake/bootstrap-ui) - Bootstrap 4/5 integration. - CsvView plugin (https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/cakephp-csvview) - A view class to easily generate CSV. - Feed plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-feed) - Containing an RssView class to easily generate (complex) RSS feeds. - Meta plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-meta) - Makes handling meta tags and SEO-relevant HTML markup DRY and easy. - Templating (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-templating) - HTML snippets as value objects, (Font) icons, and templating topics. - Tools:Tree (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-tools) - Tree helper to work with Core Tree behavior and handle tree structure output. - TwigView plugin (https://github.com/cakephp/twig-view) - A plugin to use the Twig Templating Language for views. - XlsView plugin (https://github.com/impronta48/cakephp-xlsview) - A view class to easily generate XLS using PHPSpreadsheet. Testing Plugins/Tools for testing codebases and generating test data. - CakePHP CodeSniffer rules (https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer) - The official CakePHP CS rules. - CakephpFixtureFactories plugin (https://github.com/pakacuda/cakephp-fixture-factories) - Create your fixtures dynamically on a test basis, accelerate the writing and maintenance of your tests. - FriendsOfCake/Fixturize plugin (https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/fixturize) - More efficient inserting fixtures when running test suites by decreasing amount of inserts (mysql only). Third Party APIs Plugins for accessing third party APIs.  Software Software for creating a development environment. Development Environment Software and tools for creating a sandboxed development environment. - CakePHP Docker (https://github.com/cnizzardini/cakephp-docker) - A cakephp/app template for docker. - CakePHP Vagrant Setup (https://github.com/cpierce/cakephp-vagrant-setup) - Tool for spinning up multiple CakePHP vanilla dev environments. - DDEV (https://ddev.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) - Docker based local env. - Devilbox (https://devilbox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - A docker development environment for (CakePHP) apps to be auto-setup including a lot of tools. - Docker (https://github.com/stefanvangastel/docker-cakephp) - CakePHP in a docker container environment. - Galley (https://gitlab.com/amayer5125/galley) - A small Docker dev environment for CakePHP development which includes a simple command line utility. - NetBeans (https://github.com/junichi11/cakephp3-netbeans) - This package provides support for CakePHP in NetBeans 8.1+. - Oven (https://github.com/CakeDC/oven) - Setup your favorite framework with 1 file and 1 click. - Puppet (https://puppetlabs.com/) - A server automation framework and application. - Vagrant (https://www.vagrantup.com/) - A portable development environment utility. IDE specific compatibility information and tips can be found here (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-ide-helper/wiki#ide-support-and-tips). Web Applications CMS and applications built on CakePHP - baserCMS (https://github.com/baserproject/basercms) - This is a website development framework with RESTful APIs. Installable as a plugin for CakePHP. Demo Web-based (demo) applications and tools. - BlogMVC (https://github.com/Kareylo/BlogMVC-CakePHP3) - A simple Blog example with CakePHP based on BlogMVC Project (https://github.com/Grafikart/BlogMVC). - Bookmarkr (https://github.com/lorenzo/cakephp3-bookmarkr) A bookmarking application built with the CRUD plugin. - Fluentd + Grafana Loki demo application (https://github.com/ishanvyas22/cakephp-loki-demo) - A demo application to send CakePHP docker container logs to Grafana Loki (https://grafana.com/logs/) via Fluentd (https://www.fluentd.org/). - RealWorld (https://github.com/gothinkster/cakephp-realworld-example-app) - Example CakePHP codebase containing real world examples (CRUD, auth, advanced patterns and more) that adheres to the RealWorld  (https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld-example-apps) spec and API. - Sandbox (https://sandbox.dereuromark.de) - A sandbox CakePHP application with lots of demos and plugin showcasings. - Query Examples (https://github.com/lorenzo/cakephp3-examples) Advanced query building examples. - Xeta (https://github.com/XetaIO/Xeta) - A resource to help people starting with CakePHP. - Vue.js Demo App (https://github.com/ishanvyas22/cakephpvue-spa) - A CakePHP + VueJS single page application skeleton.  Resources Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your CakePHP development skills and knowledge. Help Where to get help. - Official CakePHP Forum (https://discourse.cakephp.org/) - This is for generic questions and alike. - stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/cakephp (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/cakephp) - This is for specific questions, ideally along with some example code. CakePHP Websites Useful and current CakePHP-related websites and blogs. - CakeDC (https://www.cakedc.com/articles) - Articles around CakePHP. - dereuromark.de (https://www.dereuromark.de) - An extensive CakePHP core dev blog. - josediazgonzalez.com (https://josediazgonzalez.com/) - A mainly CakePHP related core dev blog. - mark-story.com (https://mark-story.com) - CakePHP lead dev blog. CakePHP Books and Articles Fantastic CakePHP-related (e)books and other reading material. CakePHP Videos Fantastic CakePHP-related videos. - CakePHP (https://www.youtube.com/user/CakePHP) - Channel about CakePHP videos. CakePHP Tutorials Must-do tutorials. - Official Content Management Tutorial (https://book.cakephp.org/5/en/tutorials-and-examples/cms/installation.html) CakePHP Reading and Listening Documentation and CakePHP-related reading and listening materials. - CakePHP Cookbook(!) (https://book.cakephp.org/) - The official CakePHP documentation. CakePHP Internals Reading Reading materials related to the CakePHP internals and decisions. - Top 10 (and more) core contributors (https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/graphs/contributors) - Give 'em a hand.  Conferences Official International conference. - cakefest.org (https://cakefest.org/) - Annual CakePHP Conference. MeetUps Regional meet-ups. - CakePHP-DE (https://www.meetup.com/CakePHP-DE) - MeetUps in Germany.  Contributing Please see CONTRIBUTING (CONTRIBUTING.md) for details. Credits awesome-cakephp has been created by dereuromark (https://github.com/dereuromark) and is currently maintained by him and the FriendsOfCake group. Thank you to all contributors (https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/awesome-cakephp/graphs/contributors), too. cakephp Github: https://github.com/friendsofcake/awesome-cakephp