awesome-cakephp

A curated list of amazingly awesome CakePHP plugins, resources and shiny things.

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Awesome CakePHP
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CakePHP Plugins
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Plugins / Architecture
Burzum/CakeServiceLayer plugin 67 3 months ago 🍰 - Service layer and domain/business model implementation

Plugins / Asset Management
AssetCompress plugin 370 2 months ago 🍰 - A complete asset manager for CakePHP
AssetMix plugin 32 11 days ago 🍰 - Provides integration with asset compilation

Plugins / Auditing / Logging
AuditStash plugin 77 about 1 month ago 🍰 - Flexible and rock solid audit log tracking
DatabaseLog plugin 43 11 days ago 🍰 - Simple and stand-alone logging to database instead of files
Muffin/Footprint plugin 95 11 months ago 🍰 - Plugin to allow passing currently logged in user to model layer
Version plugin 51 9 months ago 🍰 - A plugin that facilitates versioned database entities

Plugins / Authentication and Authorization
Acl plugin 111 6 months ago Managing ACL as database approach
ADmad/JwtAuth plugin 164 almost 2 years ago A plugin for authenticating using JSON Web Tokens
ADmad/SocialAuth plugin 49 3 months ago 🍰 - A plugin which allows you to authenticate using social providers like Facebook/Google/Twitter etc. using social sign on library
ApiTokenAuthenticator plugin 3 7 months ago 🍰 - A simple token authentication plugin for CakePHP REST APIs
Authentication plugin 116 22 days ago 🍰 - Official CakePHP authentication middleware plugin
Authorization plugin 76 12 days ago 🍰 - Official CakePHP authorization stack
CakeDC/Users plugin 521 30 days ago 🍰 - Complete user management (admin panel, remember me, etc), Social login (FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Instagram), RBAC, API and more
Muffin/Tokenize plugin 12 almost 4 years ago Event driven behavior for easily generating single-use security tokens
TinyAuth plugin 127 11 days ago 🍰 - Authentication and role-based (single/multi) authorization as very light-weight approach
Tools:Passwordable 336 19 days ago 🍰 - Containing for a DRY approach on password hashing
TwoFactorAuth plugin 38 4 months ago 🍰 - Allows two factor authentication using Google Authenticator or similar app to generate one-time codes. Based on library

Plugins / Caching
Cache plugin 32 19 days ago 🍰 - For caching views (HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ...) as static cache files
CakeDC/CachedRouting plugin 3 12 months ago 🍰 - Provides a cached version of the RoutingMiddleware to improve the load time of routes

Plugins / Code Analysis
cakedc/cakephp-phpstan 31 2 months ago 🍰 - A PHPStan extension to resolve CakePHP magic around getter return types for the static analyzer
IdeHelper plugin 183 19 days ago 🍰 - Helps to make IDE support better by adding annotations to your existing code similar to what baking does to new code
IdeHelperExtra plugin 2 20 days ago 🍰 - Useful IdeHelper addons for other plugins or custom use cases
lordsimal/cakephp-psalm 2 2 months ago 🍰 - A Psalm extension to resolve CakePHP magic around getter return types for the static analyzer
TestHelper plugin 7 19 days ago 🍰 - Provides testing enhancements and TDD support as browser backend

Plugins / Debugging
AssociationsDebugger plugin 10 4 months ago 🍰 - A plugin that draws your model associations as diagram
CakephpWhoops plugin 13 12 months ago 🍰 - PHP errors and exceptions for cool kids with
DebugKit plugin 852 17 days ago 🍰 - The de-facto standard for debugging
Execution order 21 about 1 year ago A demo app to display the execution order of files, methods and callbacks
Sentry plugin 10 20 days ago 🍰 A plugin to seamlessly integrate Sentry for errors and exceptions
Setup plugin 34 19 days ago 🍰 - A lightweight setup plugin containing debugging and maintenance tools

Plugins / Email
EmailQueue plugin 56 11 months ago Email queue plugin with a preview and sender shell
Mailgun plugin 23 about 1 year ago Email transport plugin for sending email via Mailgun
Queue plugin 307 19 days ago 🍰 - A dependency-free queue-based mail solution using Mailer/Email class, allowing re-queue on (network) failure

Plugins / File Manipulation
FileStorage plugin 4 19 days ago 🍰 - Flexible file storage and upload plugin
Josbeir/Filesystem plugin 20 9 months ago Abstract + file entity based upload plugin
Josegonzalez/Upload plugin 551 16 days ago 🍰 - A customisable plugin that uses to write to multiple backends (Dropbox, FTP, S3, Local, etc.)

Plugins / Geolocation
Geo plugin 47 19 days ago 🍰 - Containing and

Plugins / HTTP
Http/Adapter/Cake library 5 9 months ago Adapter for HTTP client abstraction

Plugins / I18n
ADmad/I18n plugin 43 about 1 year ago 🍰 - A plugin with I18n related tools
Cake/Localized plugin 213 12 days ago 🍰 - Localized validation and ready-to-use translation PO files
Translate plugin 17 3 months ago Manage translations of your static content the easy way via web backend, incl. import from POT files, auto-suggest and auto-translate via API

Plugins / Imagery
ADmad/Glide plugin 34 8 months ago 🍰 - A plugin for using image manipulation library
QrCodePlugin 6 about 2 months ago 🍰 - Easily render SVG/PNG QR Codes for your app

Plugins / Libs
Capcake 114 about 7 years ago Deploy CakePHP applications using Capistrano
Chronos 1,355 15 days ago A simple standalone DateTime API extension (successor of Carbon)
Composer Installers 1,431 19 days ago A multi framework Composer library installer
Composer / - A package and dependency manager
Graphviz 72 5 months ago A Graphviz library
Rocketeer 2,664 about 4 years ago PHP task runner and deployment package
makallio85/YamlRoute plugin 6 over 1 year ago 🍰 - Configure routes with simple YAML files

Plugins / Markup
Markup plugin 3 6 months ago 🍰 - Allows to use PHP or JS based syntax highlighting

Plugins / Migration
Migrations plugin 137 12 days ago 🍰 - (DB) Migration plugin
Upgrade app 110 22 days ago 🍰 - Official upgrade app for 3.x=>4.x and 4.x=>5.x
Upgrade app (extended) 24 4 months ago 🍰 - An extended upgrade app for 3.x=>4.x and some 5.x snippets
Upgrade/Migration Guide 🍰 - Official migration guide

Plugins / Miscellaneous
Ajax plugin 56 19 days ago 🍰 - A plugin to ease handling AJAX requests
CakeDC/Enum plugin 27 5 months ago 🍰 - A plugin to add enumeration list support to your app
CakeDto plugin 24 19 days ago 🍰 - Quickly generate useful data transfer objects for your app (mutable/immutable), replacing messy arrays and leveraging your IDE through typehinting and autocomplete
CakeImpersonate plugin 7 over 4 years ago 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 16 4 months ago 🍰 - For generating basic calendars. Includes IcalView for ICS calendar file generation
Feedback plugin 6 19 days ago 🍰 - Allow visitors to send quick and easy feedback incl. a screenshot via sidebar form
Flash plugin 12 6 months ago 🍰 - More powerful flash messages for your application
OPCache Preloader 10 12 months ago 🍰 - An OPCache Preloader for CakePHP applications
Setup:Maintenance 34 19 days ago 🍰 - Maintenance shell to go into maintenance mode for all requests with optional IP whitelisting
Shim plugin 37 19 days ago 🍰 - A plugin containing useful shims and improvements as basis for your application
Tools plugin 336 19 days ago 🍰 - Containing lots of useful libs, helpers, behaviors, components, shells and more

Plugins / Navigation
Icings/Menu plugin 11 4 months ago 🍰 - A seasoned menu plugin for CakePHP

Plugins / ORM / Database / Datamapping
ADmad/Sequence plugin 44 about 1 year ago 🍰 - Behavior for maintaining ordered list of records
CakeDecimal plugin 8 6 months ago 🍰 - A value object approach on handling decimals
Duplicatable plugin 50 about 2 months ago 🍰 - Behavior for duplicating entities including related data
Lampager/Cake plugin 5 6 months ago 🍰 - Rapid pagination without using OFFSET
Muffin/Orderly plugin 22 about 1 year ago 🍰 - Allows setting default order for your tables
Muffin/Sti plugin 6 10 months ago Single Table Inheritance for CakePHP
Muffin/Trash plugin 85 about 1 month ago 🍰 - Soft-delete behavior for CakePHP
Robotusers/TableInheritance plugin 5 7 months ago Singe Table Inheritance (STI) plugin
RowLocker plugin 19 almost 4 years ago Exclusive locks for rows in your tables
Muffin/Webservices ORM plugin 89 5 months ago An ORM like interface for webservices
Connehito/CakephpMasterReplica plugin 12 about 3 years ago Switch master/replica database connections
Itosho/EasyQuery plugin 26 7 months ago 🍰 - Behavior for easily generating some complicated queries like (bulk) insert/upsert etc
Icings/Partitionable plugin 16 3 months ago 🍰 - Partitionable associations allowing for basic limiting per group

Plugins / PDF
CakePdf plugin 373 about 1 year ago 🍰 - A plugin around PDF generation

Plugins / Queue
CakeQueuesadilla plugin 34 3 months ago A plugin that provides queueing integration with a variety of backends (BeanstalkD, MySQL, Redis, etc.)
Queue plugin 37 12 days ago 🍰 - CakePHP core queue system for the queue library
Queue plugin 307 19 days ago 🍰 - A minimal and dependency-free queue solution
QueueScheduler plugin 6 19 days ago 🍰 - A dependency-free crontab-like scheduler as DB driven solution and addon to Queue plugin

Plugins / REST and API
CRUD plugin 375 18 days ago 🍰 - CakePHP Application development on steroids - rapid prototyping / scaffolding & production-ready code
Alt3/Swagger plugin 64 over 2 years ago Swagger 2.0 documentation for your CakePHP APIs using swagger-php and swagger-ui
CakeDC/Api plugin 61 3 months ago 🍰 - All-in-one solution to provide a complete API. It includes versioning, renderers, CRUD, authentication, extensions (paginate, filter, HATEOAS), and much more
FractalTransformerView plugin 19 10 months ago 🍰 - A plugin which allows using for your API output
MixerApi 🍰 - Streamline development of modern RESTful APIs for your team's CakePHP project
SwaggerBake plugin 59 28 days ago 🍰 - This plugin automatically builds OpenAPI from your existing models and routes for display in Swagger and Redoc
Cake/ElasticSearch plugin 87 3 months ago 🍰 - Alternative ORM using as its backend
PlumSearch plugin 19 about 1 year ago 🍰 - Implements custom, flexible and extendable search strategies. Implements PRG pattern
Search plugin 170 7 months ago 🍰 - Provides easy searching/filtering for paginated views using PRG pattern
Tags plugin 14 19 days ago 🍰 - For tagging and finding tagged records

Plugins / Security
Bruteforce 3 about 1 year ago Simple way to add Brute Force Protection to your installation without involving database
Captcha plugin 10 19 days ago 🍰 - Simple, unobtrusive and extendable captcha solution providing by default an image based math captcha
Expose plugin 8 19 days ago 🍰 - 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 36 about 1 year ago 🍰 - Primary key obfuscation/shortening using UUIDs, HashIds, Optimus, Tiny and/or custom obfuscation strategies
Muffin/Throttle plugin 63 about 1 year ago 🍰 - A plugin for rate limiting (API) requests
Recaptcha plugin 21 12 months ago 🍰 - Simple, lightweight Google Recaptcha v2

Plugins / SEO
Muffin/Slug plugin 35 about 1 year ago 🍰 - A plugin for generating slugs and finding records by slug. Uses a pluggable architecture which allows using your own slug generator class
Tools:Slugged 336 19 days ago 🍰 - Containing Slugged behavior to auto-generate URL-compatible slugs from titles

Plugins / Skeleton
App template 370 17 days ago An empty CakePHP project for use with composer

Plugins / Social
Comments plugin 1 19 days ago 🍰 - Allows users to comment records, supporting different formats
Favorites plugin 1 19 days ago 🍰 - Allows users to star/like/favor records
Ratings plugin 9 19 days ago 🍰 - Allows users to rate records and displays ratings

Plugins / Templating
Bake plugin 110 21 days ago 🍰 - Provides code generation functionality
BootstrapUI plugin 338 8 months ago 🍰 - Bootstrap 4/5 integration
CsvView plugin 176 9 months ago 🍰 - A view class to easily generate CSV
Feed plugin 13 23 days ago 🍰 - Containing an RssView class to easily generate (complex) RSS feeds
Meta plugin 7 6 months ago 🍰 - Makes handling meta tags and SEO-relevant HTML markup DRY and easy
Templating 2 about 1 month ago 🍰 - HTML snippets as value objects, (Font) icons, and templating topics
Tools:Tree 336 19 days ago 🍰 - Tree helper to work with Core Tree behavior and handle tree structure output
TwigView plugin 13 about 2 months ago 🍰 - A plugin to use the Twig Templating Language for views

Plugins / Testing
CakePHP Codeception module 46 over 1 year ago The official CakePHP integration with
CakePHP CodeSniffer rules 238 about 2 months ago The official CakePHP CS rules
CakephpFixtureFactories plugin 83 2 months ago 🍰 - Create your fixtures dynamically on a test basis, accelerate the writing and maintenance of your tests
Faker plugin 18 about 8 years ago support for CakePHP fixtures
Fixtures plugin 2 almost 8 years ago Fixtures plugin to read existing fixtures and create table/insert data for quick start with app
FriendsOfCake/Fixturize plugin 24 about 2 months ago 🍰 - More efficient inserting fixtures when running test suites by decreasing amount of inserts (mysql only)

Software / Development Environment
CakePHP Docker 30 about 1 year ago 🍰 - A cakephp/app template for docker
CakePHP Vagrant Setup 5 over 2 years ago Tool for spinning up multiple CakePHP vanilla dev environments
Devilbox A docker development environment for (CakePHP) apps to be auto-setup including a lot of tools
Docker 31 almost 5 years ago CakePHP in a docker container environment
Galley 🍰 - A small Docker dev environment for CakePHP development which includes a simple command line utility
NetBeans 46 almost 2 years ago This package provides support for CakePHP in NetBeans 8.1+
Oven 141 over 4 years ago Setup your favorite framework with 1 file and 1 click
Puppet A server automation framework and application
Vagrant A portable development environment utility

Software / CMS and applications built on CakePHP
baserCMS 168 1 day ago This is a website development framework with RESTful APIs. Installable as a plugin for CakePHP 4.x
Croogo CMS software (see 5.0 branch)

Software / Demo
BlogMVC 8 about 7 years ago A simple Blog example with CakePHP based on
Bookmarkr 17 over 9 years ago A bookmarking application built with the CRUD plugin
CakeFest Demo application around the annual CakePHP Conference "CakeFest"
Fluentd + Grafana Loki demo application 1 16 days ago A demo application to send CakePHP docker container logs to via
RealWorld 103 almost 3 years ago Example CakePHP codebase containing real world examples (CRUD, auth, advanced patterns and more) that adheres to the spec and API
Sandbox A sandbox CakePHP application with lots of demos and plugin showcasings
Query Examples 56 about 10 years ago Advanced query building examples
Xeta 53 over 7 years ago A resource to help people starting with CakePHP
Vue.js Demo App 49 11 days ago A CakePHP + VueJS single page application skeleton

Resources / Help
CakePHP-FR.org The french community website
Official CakePHP Forum This is for generic questions and alike
IRC Channel Live chat/discussion with other devs and core devs
stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/cakephp This is for specific questions, ideally along with some example code

Resources / CakePHP Websites
CakeDC Articles around CakePHP
dereuromark.de An extensive CakePHP core dev blog
jedistirfry.co.uk A CakePHP related dev blog
josediazgonzalez.com A mainly CakePHP related core dev blog
mark-story.com CakePHP lead dev blog

Resources / CakePHP Videos
CakePHP Channel about CakePHP videos

Resources / CakePHP Tutorials
Official Blog tutorial
Official Content Management Tutorial

Resources / CakePHP Reading and Listening
CakePHP Cookbook(!) The official CakePHP documentation

Resources / CakePHP Internals Reading
Top 10 (and more) core contributors 8,679 11 days ago Give 'em a hand

Conferences / Official
cakefest.org Annual CakePHP Conference

Conferences / MeetUps
CakePHP-DE MeetUps in Germany

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