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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 4.x+ plugins, resources and shiny things.
Plugins with the "🍰" icon have CakePHP 5 compatible release too (minimum "beta").
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
- 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)
- **Dependency Injection** (#dependency-injection)
- **E-commerce** (#e-commerce)
- **Email** (#email)
- **File Manipulation** (#file-manipulation)
- **Filtering and Validation** (#filtering-and-validation)
- **Geolocation** (#geolocation)
- **HTTP** (#http)
- **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.
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.
- Acl plugin (https://github.com/cakephp/acl/) - Managing ACL as database approach.
- ADmad/JwtAuth plugin (https://github.com/ADmad/cakephp-jwt-auth) - A plugin for authenticating using JSON Web Tokens.
- 🍰 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.
- Muffin/Tokenize plugin (https://github.com/UseMuffin/Tokenize) - Event driven behavior for easily generating single-use security tokens.
- 🍰 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.
Dependency Injection
Plugins that implement the dependency injection design pattern.
E-commerce
Plugins and applications for taking payments and building online e-commerce stores.
Email
Plugins for sending and parsing email.
- EmailQueue plugin (https://github.com/lorenzo/cakephp-email-queue) - Email queue plugin with a preview and sender shell.
- Mailgun plugin (https://github.com/narendravaghela/cakephp-mailgun) - Email transport plugin for sending email via Mailgun.
- 🍰 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.
File Manipulation
Plugins for file manipulation.
- 🍰 FileStorage plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-file-storage) - Flexible file storage and upload plugin.
- Josbeir/Filesystem plugin (https://github.com/josbeir/cakephp-filesystem) - Abstract Flysystem (https://flysystem.thephpleague.com/) + file entity based 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 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/).
HTTP
Plugins for HTTP and client abstraction
- Http/Adapter/Cake library (https://github.com/php-http/cakephp-adapter) - Adapter for HTTPlug (https://github.com/php-http/httplug) HTTP client abstraction.
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) - Manage translations of your static content the easy way via web backend, incl. import from POT files, auto-suggest and auto-translate via
API.
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.
- Capcake (https://github.com/jadb/capcake) - Deploy CakePHP applications using Capistrano.
- 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.
- 🍰 makallio85/YamlRoute plugin (https://github.com/makallio85/yaml-route) - Configure routes with simple YAML files.
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.
- CakeImpersonate plugin (https://github.com/jomweb/CakeImpersonate) - A component that stores the current authentication session and creates new session for impersonating Users. User can revert back to original
authentication sessions without the need to re-login.
- 🍰 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.
- 🍰 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 libs, helpers, behaviors, components, shells 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/Sti plugin (https://github.com/UseMuffin/Sti) - Single Table Inheritance for CakePHP.
- 🍰 Muffin/Trash plugin (https://github.com/usemuffin/trash) - Soft-delete behavior for CakePHP.
- Robotusers/TableInheritance plugin (https://github.com/robotusers/cakephp-table-inheritance) - Singe Table Inheritance (STI) plugin.
- RowLocker plugin (https://github.com/lorenzo/row-locker) - Exclusive locks for rows in your tables.
- Muffin/Webservices ORM plugin (https://github.com/usemuffin/webservice) - An ORM like interface for webservices.
- Connehito/CakephpMasterReplica plugin (https://github.com/Connehito/cakephp-master-replica) - Switch master/replica database connections.
- 🍰 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.
- CakeQueuesadilla plugin (https://github.com/josegonzalez/cakephp-queuesadilla) - A plugin that provides queueing integration with a variety of backends (BeanstalkD, MySQL, Redis, etc.).
- 🍰 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 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.
- Alt3/Swagger plugin (https://github.com/alt3/cakephp-swagger) - Swagger 2.0 documentation for your CakePHP APIs using swagger-php and swagger-ui.
- 🍰 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.
- 🍰 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.
- Bruteforce (https://github.com/Ali1/cakephp-bruteforce/) - Simple way to add Brute Force Protection to your installation without involving database.
- 🍰 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.
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.
Testing
Plugins/Tools for testing codebases and generating test data.
- CakePHP Codeception module (https://github.com/cakephp/codeception) - The official CakePHP integration with Codeception (https://codeception.com).
- 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.
- Faker plugin (https://github.com/gourmet/faker) - Faker (https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker) support for CakePHP fixtures.
- Fixtures plugin (https://github.com/LubosRemplik/CakePHP-Fixtures) - Fixtures plugin to read existing fixtures and create table/insert data for quick start with app.
- 🍰 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.
- 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 4.x.
- Croogo (https://croogo.org) - CMS software (see 5.0 branch).
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.
- CakeFest (http://cakefest.dereuromark.de/) - Demo application around the annual CakePHP Conference "CakeFest".
- 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.
- CakePHP-FR.org (http://cakephp-fr.org) - The french community website.
- Official CakePHP Forum (https://discourse.cakephp.org/) - This is for generic questions and alike.
- IRC Channel (https://www.dereuromark.de/2013/01/27/irc-cakephp-channel/) - Live chat/discussion with other devs and core devs.
- 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 (http://www.cakedc.com/articles) - Articles around CakePHP.
- dereuromark.de (https://www.dereuromark.de) - An extensive CakePHP core dev blog.
- jedistirfry.co.uk (http://jedistirfry.co.uk) - A CakePHP related dev blog.
- josediazgonzalez.com (http://josediazgonzalez.com/) - A mainly CakePHP related core dev blog.
- mark-story.com (http://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 Blog tutorial (https://book.cakephp.org/4.0/en/tutorials-and-examples/blog/blog.html)
- Official Content Management Tutorial (https://book.cakephp.org/4/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.
A curated list of amazingly awesome CakePHP 4.x+ plugins, resources and shiny things.
Plugins with the "🍰" icon have CakePHP 5 compatible release too (minimum "beta").
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
- 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)
- **Dependency Injection** (#dependency-injection)
- **E-commerce** (#e-commerce)
- **Email** (#email)
- **File Manipulation** (#file-manipulation)
- **Filtering and Validation** (#filtering-and-validation)
- **Geolocation** (#geolocation)
- **HTTP** (#http)
- **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.
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.
- Acl plugin (https://github.com/cakephp/acl/) - Managing ACL as database approach.
- ADmad/JwtAuth plugin (https://github.com/ADmad/cakephp-jwt-auth) - A plugin for authenticating using JSON Web Tokens.
- 🍰 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.
- Muffin/Tokenize plugin (https://github.com/UseMuffin/Tokenize) - Event driven behavior for easily generating single-use security tokens.
- 🍰 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.
Dependency Injection
Plugins that implement the dependency injection design pattern.
E-commerce
Plugins and applications for taking payments and building online e-commerce stores.
Plugins for sending and parsing email.
- EmailQueue plugin (https://github.com/lorenzo/cakephp-email-queue) - Email queue plugin with a preview and sender shell.
- Mailgun plugin (https://github.com/narendravaghela/cakephp-mailgun) - Email transport plugin for sending email via Mailgun.
- 🍰 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.
File Manipulation
Plugins for file manipulation.
- 🍰 FileStorage plugin (https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-file-storage) - Flexible file storage and upload plugin.
- Josbeir/Filesystem plugin (https://github.com/josbeir/cakephp-filesystem) - Abstract Flysystem (https://flysystem.thephpleague.com/) + file entity based 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 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/).
HTTP
Plugins for HTTP and client abstraction
- Http/Adapter/Cake library (https://github.com/php-http/cakephp-adapter) - Adapter for HTTPlug (https://github.com/php-http/httplug) HTTP client abstraction.
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) - Manage translations of your static content the easy way via web backend, incl. import from POT files, auto-suggest and auto-translate via
API.
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.
- Capcake (https://github.com/jadb/capcake) - Deploy CakePHP applications using Capistrano.
- 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.
- 🍰 makallio85/YamlRoute plugin (https://github.com/makallio85/yaml-route) - Configure routes with simple YAML files.
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.
- CakeImpersonate plugin (https://github.com/jomweb/CakeImpersonate) - A component that stores the current authentication session and creates new session for impersonating Users. User can revert back to original
authentication sessions without the need to re-login.
- 🍰 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.
- 🍰 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 libs, helpers, behaviors, components, shells 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/Sti plugin (https://github.com/UseMuffin/Sti) - Single Table Inheritance for CakePHP.
- 🍰 Muffin/Trash plugin (https://github.com/usemuffin/trash) - Soft-delete behavior for CakePHP.
- Robotusers/TableInheritance plugin (https://github.com/robotusers/cakephp-table-inheritance) - Singe Table Inheritance (STI) plugin.
- RowLocker plugin (https://github.com/lorenzo/row-locker) - Exclusive locks for rows in your tables.
- Muffin/Webservices ORM plugin (https://github.com/usemuffin/webservice) - An ORM like interface for webservices.
- Connehito/CakephpMasterReplica plugin (https://github.com/Connehito/cakephp-master-replica) - Switch master/replica database connections.
- 🍰 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.
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.
- CakeQueuesadilla plugin (https://github.com/josegonzalez/cakephp-queuesadilla) - A plugin that provides queueing integration with a variety of backends (BeanstalkD, MySQL, Redis, etc.).
- 🍰 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 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.
- Alt3/Swagger plugin (https://github.com/alt3/cakephp-swagger) - Swagger 2.0 documentation for your CakePHP APIs using swagger-php and swagger-ui.
- 🍰 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.
- 🍰 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.
- Bruteforce (https://github.com/Ali1/cakephp-bruteforce/) - Simple way to add Brute Force Protection to your installation without involving database.
- 🍰 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.
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.
Testing
Plugins/Tools for testing codebases and generating test data.
- CakePHP Codeception module (https://github.com/cakephp/codeception) - The official CakePHP integration with Codeception (https://codeception.com).
- 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.
- Faker plugin (https://github.com/gourmet/faker) - Faker (https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker) support for CakePHP fixtures.
- Fixtures plugin (https://github.com/LubosRemplik/CakePHP-Fixtures) - Fixtures plugin to read existing fixtures and create table/insert data for quick start with app.
- 🍰 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.
- 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 4.x.
- Croogo (https://croogo.org) - CMS software (see 5.0 branch).
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.
- CakeFest (http://cakefest.dereuromark.de/) - Demo application around the annual CakePHP Conference "CakeFest".
- 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.
- CakePHP-FR.org (http://cakephp-fr.org) - The french community website.
- Official CakePHP Forum (https://discourse.cakephp.org/) - This is for generic questions and alike.
- IRC Channel (https://www.dereuromark.de/2013/01/27/irc-cakephp-channel/) - Live chat/discussion with other devs and core devs.
- 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 (http://www.cakedc.com/articles) - Articles around CakePHP.
- dereuromark.de (https://www.dereuromark.de) - An extensive CakePHP core dev blog.
- jedistirfry.co.uk (http://jedistirfry.co.uk) - A CakePHP related dev blog.
- josediazgonzalez.com (http://josediazgonzalez.com/) - A mainly CakePHP related core dev blog.
- mark-story.com (http://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 Blog tutorial (https://book.cakephp.org/4.0/en/tutorials-and-examples/blog/blog.html)
- Official Content Management Tutorial (https://book.cakephp.org/4/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.