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Awesome CakePHP
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 of this awesome list
- the CakePHP 3.x version of this awesome list
- this wiki with a list of not-yet upgraded plugins
Additional lists you might find useful:
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
- APM
- Architecture
- Asset Management
- Auditing / Logging
- Authentication and Authorization
- Caching
- Code Analysis
- Debugging
- Dependency Injection
- E-commerce
- File Manipulation
- Filtering and Validation
- Geolocation
- HTTP
- I18n
- Imagery
- Libs
- Markup
- Migration
- Miscellaneous
- Navigation
- NoSQL
- Notifications
- ORM / Database / Datamapping
- Queue
- REST and API
- Search
- Security
- SEO
- Skeleton
- Social
- Templating
- Testing
- Third Party APIs
- Software
- Web Applications
- Resources
- Conferences
- Contributing
Plugins
APM
Plugins for Application Performance Monitoring.
Architecture
- 🍰 Burzum/CakeServiceLayer plugin - Service layer and domain/business model implementation.
Asset Management
Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.
- 🍰 AssetCompress plugin - A complete asset manager for CakePHP.
- 🍰 AssetMix plugin - Provides integration with Laravel Mix asset compilation.
Auditing / Logging
Plugins for auditing and logging.
- 🍰 AuditStash plugin - Flexible and rock solid audit log tracking.
- 🍰 DatabaseLog plugin - Simple and stand-alone logging to database instead of files.
- 🍰 Muffin/Footprint plugin - Plugin to allow passing currently logged in user to model layer.
- 🍰 Version plugin - A plugin that facilitates versioned database entities.
Authentication and Authorization
Plugins and libraries for implementing authentication and authorization.
- Acl plugin - Managing ACL as database approach.
- ADmad/JwtAuth plugin - A plugin for authenticating using JSON Web Tokens.
- 🍰 ADmad/SocialAuth plugin - A plugin which allows you to authenticate using social providers like Facebook/Google/Twitter etc. using SocialConnect/auth social sign on library.
- 🍰 ApiTokenAuthenticator plugin - A simple token authentication plugin for CakePHP REST APIs.
- 🍰 Authentication plugin - Official CakePHP authentication middleware plugin.
- 🍰 Authorization plugin - Official CakePHP authorization stack.
- 🍰 CakeDC/Users plugin - Complete user management (admin panel, remember me, etc), Social login (FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Instagram), RBAC, API and more.
- Muffin/Tokenize plugin - Event driven behavior for easily generating single-use security tokens.
- 🍰 TinyAuth plugin - Authentication and role-based (single/multi) authorization as very light-weight approach.
- 🍰 Tools:Passwordable - Containing Passwordable behavior for a DRY approach on password hashing.
- 🍰 TwoFactorAuth plugin - Allows two factor authentication using Google Authenticator or similar app to generate one-time codes. Based on RobThree/TwoFactorAuth library.
Caching
Plugins for caching data.
- 🍰 Cache plugin - For caching views (HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ...) as static cache files.
- 🍰 CakeDC/CachedRouting plugin - 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 - A PHPStan extension to resolve CakePHP magic around getter return types for the static analyzer.
- 🍰 IdeHelper plugin - Helps to make IDE support better by adding annotations to your existing code similar to what baking does to new code.
- 🍰 IdeHelperExtra plugin - Useful IdeHelper addons for other plugins or custom use cases.
- 🍰 lordsimal/cakephp-psalm - A Psalm extension to resolve CakePHP magic around getter return types for the static analyzer.
- 🍰 TestHelper plugin - Provides testing enhancements and TDD support as browser backend.
Debugging
Plugins for debugging and local development.
- 🍰 AssociationsDebugger plugin - A plugin that draws your model associations as diagram.
- 🍰 CakephpWhoops plugin - PHP errors and exceptions for cool kids with filp/whoops.
- 🍰 DebugKit plugin - The de-facto standard for debugging.
- Execution order - A demo app to display the execution order of files, methods and callbacks.
- 🍰 Sentry plugin A plugin to seamlessly integrate Sentry for errors and exceptions.
- 🍰 Setup plugin - 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 - Email queue plugin with a preview and sender shell.
- Mailgun plugin - Email transport plugin for sending email via Mailgun.
- 🍰 Queue plugin - 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 - Flexible file storage and upload plugin.
- Josbeir/Filesystem plugin - Abstract Flysystem + file entity based upload plugin.
- 🍰 Josegonzalez/Upload plugin - A customisable plugin that uses Flysystem 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 - Containing Geocoder behavior and GoogleMaps helper.
HTTP
Plugins for HTTP and client abstraction
- Http/Adapter/Cake library - Adapter for HTTPlug HTTP client abstraction.
I18n
Plugins for I18n (Internationalization) and L10n (Localization).
- 🍰 ADmad/I18n plugin - A plugin with I18n related tools.
- 🍰 Cake/Localized plugin - Localized validation and ready-to-use translation PO files.
- Translate plugin - 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 - A plugin for using Glide image manipulation library.
- 🍰 QrCodePlugin - 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 - Deploy CakePHP applications using Capistrano.
- Chronos - A simple standalone DateTime API extension (successor of Carbon).
- Composer Installers - A multi framework Composer library installer.
- Composer/Packagist - A package and dependency manager.
- Graphviz - A Graphviz library.
- Rocketeer - PHP task runner and deployment package.
- 🍰 makallio85/YamlRoute plugin - Configure routes with simple YAML files.
Markup
Plugins for working with markup.
- 🍰 Markup plugin - Allows to use PHP or JS based syntax highlighting.
Migration
Plugins and resources around migration and upgrading.
- 🍰 Migrations plugin - (DB) Migration plugin.
- 🍰 Upgrade app - Official upgrade app for 3.x=>4.x and 4.x=>5.x.
- 🍰 Upgrade app (extended) - An extended upgrade app for 3.x=>4.x and some 5.x snippets.
- 🍰 Upgrade/Migration Guide - Official migration guide.
Miscellaneous
Misc plugins and libraries.
- 🍰 Ajax plugin - A plugin to ease handling AJAX requests.
- 🍰 CakeDC/Enum plugin - A plugin to add enumeration list support to your app.
- 🍰 CakeDto plugin - Quickly generate useful data transfer objects for your app (mutable/immutable), replacing messy arrays and leveraging your IDE through typehinting and autocomplete.
- CakeImpersonate plugin - 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 - For generating basic calendars. Includes IcalView for ICS calendar file generation.
- 🍰 Feedback plugin - Allow visitors to send quick and easy feedback incl. a screenshot via sidebar form.
- 🍰 Flash plugin - More powerful flash messages for your application.
- 🍰 OPCache Preloader - An OPCache Preloader for CakePHP applications.
- 🍰 Setup:Maintenance - Maintenance shell to go into maintenance mode for all requests with optional IP whitelisting.
- 🍰 Shim plugin - A plugin containing useful shims and improvements as basis for your application.
- 🍰 Tools plugin - Containing lots of useful libs, helpers, behaviors, components, shells and more.
Navigation
Tools for building navigation structures.
- 🍰 Icings/Menu plugin - A 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 - Behavior for maintaining ordered list of records.
- 🍰 CakeDecimal plugin - A value object approach on handling decimals.
- 🍰 Duplicatable plugin - Behavior for duplicating entities including related data.
- 🍰 Lampager/Cake plugin - Rapid pagination without using OFFSET.
- 🍰 Muffin/Orderly plugin - Allows setting default order for your tables.
- Muffin/Sti plugin - Single Table Inheritance for CakePHP.
- 🍰 Muffin/Trash plugin - Soft-delete behavior for CakePHP.
- Robotusers/TableInheritance plugin - Singe Table Inheritance (STI) plugin.
- RowLocker plugin - Exclusive locks for rows in your tables.
- Muffin/Webservices ORM plugin - An ORM like interface for webservices.
- Connehito/CakephpMasterReplica plugin - Switch master/replica database connections.
- 🍰 Itosho/EasyQuery plugin - Behavior for easily generating some complicated queries like (bulk) insert/upsert etc.
- 🍰 Icings/Partitionable plugin - Partitionable associations allowing for basic limiting per group.
Plugins and software for working with PDF files.
- 🍰 CakePdf plugin - A plugin around PDF generation.
Queue
Plugins for working with event and task queues.
- CakeQueuesadilla plugin - A plugin that provides queueing integration with a variety of backends (BeanstalkD, MySQL, Redis, etc.).
- 🍰 Queue plugin - CakePHP core queue system for the php-queue queue library.
- 🍰 Queue plugin - A minimal and dependency-free queue solution.
- 🍰 QueueScheduler plugin - 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 - CakePHP Application development on steroids - rapid prototyping / scaffolding & production-ready code.
- Alt3/Swagger plugin - Swagger 2.0 documentation for your CakePHP APIs using swagger-php and swagger-ui.
- 🍰 CakeDC/Api plugin - All-in-one solution to provide a complete API. It includes versioning, renderers, CRUD, authentication, extensions (paginate, filter, HATEOAS), and much more.
- BryanCrowe/ApiPagination plugin - Automatically adds fully configurable pagination metadata from CakePHP’s built-in pagination to JsonView or XmlView API responses by encapsulating payload data in an envelope.
- 🍰 FractalTransformerView plugin - A plugin which allows using Fractal transformers for your API output.
- 🍰 MixerApi - Streamline development of modern RESTful APIs for your team's CakePHP project.
- 🍰 SwaggerBake plugin - 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 - Alternative ORM using Elasticsearch as its backend.
- 🍰 CakeDC/SearchFilter plugin - 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 - Implements custom, flexible and extendable search strategies. Implements PRG pattern.
- 🍰 Search plugin - Provides easy searching/filtering for paginated views using PRG pattern.
- 🍰 Tags plugin - For tagging and finding tagged records.
Security
Plugins and information around security, preventing vulnerabilities and protection against XSS and alike.
- Bruteforce - Simple way to add Brute Force Protection to your installation without involving database.
- 🍰 Captcha plugin - Simple, unobtrusive and extendable captcha solution providing by default an image based math captcha.
- BryanCrowe/EncryptedType plugin - A straightforward solution that enables field-level (column) encryption within the application layer before data is stored or transmitted to the database, supporting regulatory compliance, zero-trust security, end-to-end encryption, and contextual awareness.
- 🍰 Expose plugin - 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 - Primary key obfuscation/shortening using UUIDs, HashIds, Optimus, Tiny and/or custom obfuscation strategies.
- 🍰 Muffin/Throttle plugin - A plugin for rate limiting (API) requests.
- 🍰 Recaptcha plugin - Simple, lightweight Google Recaptcha v2.
SEO
Search Engine Optimization.
- 🍰 Muffin/Slug plugin - A plugin for generating slugs and finding records by slug. Uses a pluggable architecture which allows using your own slug generator class.
- 🍰 Tools:Slugged - Containing Slugged behavior to auto-generate URL-compatible slugs from titles.
Skeleton
Plugins and repositories around app skeletons.
- App template - An empty CakePHP project for use with composer.
- BS flavored App template - An empty CakePHP project with BS5 and FontAwesome out of the box.
Social
Plugins around social features.
- 🍰 Comments plugin - Allows users to comment records, supporting different formats.
- 🍰 Favorites plugin - Allows users to star/like/favor records.
- 🍰 Ratings plugin - Allows users to rate records and displays ratings.
Templating
Plugins for templating and lexing.
- 🍰 Bake plugin - Provides code generation functionality.
- 🍰 BootstrapUI plugin - Bootstrap 4/5 integration.
- 🍰 CsvView plugin - A view class to easily generate CSV.
- 🍰 Feed plugin - Containing an RssView class to easily generate (complex) RSS feeds.
- 🍰 Meta plugin - Makes handling meta tags and SEO-relevant HTML markup DRY and easy.
- 🍰 Templating - HTML snippets as value objects, (Font) icons, and templating topics.
- 🍰 Tools:Tree - Tree helper to work with Core Tree behavior and handle tree structure output.
- 🍰 TwigView plugin - A plugin to use the Twig Templating Language for views.
Testing
Plugins/Tools for testing codebases and generating test data.
- CakePHP Codeception module - The official CakePHP integration with Codeception.
- CakePHP CodeSniffer rules - The official CakePHP CS rules.
- 🍰 CakephpFixtureFactories plugin - Create your fixtures dynamically on a test basis, accelerate the writing and maintenance of your tests.
- Faker plugin - Faker support for CakePHP fixtures.
- Fixtures plugin - Fixtures plugin to read existing fixtures and create table/insert data for quick start with app.
- 🍰 FriendsOfCake/Fixturize plugin - 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 - A cakephp/app template for docker.
- CakePHP Vagrant Setup - 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 - CakePHP in a docker container environment.
- 🍰 Galley - A small Docker dev environment for CakePHP development which includes a simple command line utility.
- NetBeans - This package provides support for CakePHP in NetBeans 8.1+.
- Oven - Setup your favorite framework with 1 file and 1 click.
- Puppet - A server automation framework and application.
- Vagrant - A portable development environment utility.
IDE specific compatibility information and tips can be found here.
Web Applications
CMS and applications built on CakePHP
- baserCMS - This is a website development framework with RESTful APIs. Installable as a plugin for CakePHP 4.x.
- Croogo - CMS software (see 5.0 branch).
Demo
Web-based (demo) applications and tools.
- BlogMVC - A simple Blog example with CakePHP based on BlogMVC Project.
- Bookmarkr A bookmarking application built with the CRUD plugin.
- CakeFest - Demo application around the annual CakePHP Conference "CakeFest".
- Fluentd + Grafana Loki demo application - A demo application to send CakePHP docker container logs to Grafana Loki via Fluentd.
- RealWorld - Example CakePHP codebase containing real world examples (CRUD, auth, advanced patterns and more) that adheres to the RealWorld spec and API.
- Sandbox - A sandbox CakePHP application with lots of demos and plugin showcasings.
- Query Examples Advanced query building examples.
- Xeta - A resource to help people starting with CakePHP.
- Vue.js Demo App - 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 - 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.
CakePHP Websites
Useful and current CakePHP-related websites and blogs.
- 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.
CakePHP Books and Articles
Fantastic CakePHP-related (e)books and other reading material.
CakePHP Videos
Fantastic CakePHP-related videos.
- CakePHP - Channel about CakePHP videos.
CakePHP Tutorials
Must-do tutorials.
CakePHP Reading and Listening
Documentation and CakePHP-related reading and listening materials.
- CakePHP Cookbook(!) - The official CakePHP documentation.
CakePHP Internals Reading
Reading materials related to the CakePHP internals and decisions.
- Top 10 (and more) core contributors - Give 'em a hand.
Conferences
Official
International conference.
- cakefest.org - Annual CakePHP Conference.
MeetUps
Regional meet-ups.
- CakePHP-DE - MeetUps in Germany.
Contributing
Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.
Credits
awesome-cakephp has been created by dereuromark and is currently maintained by him and the FriendsOfCake group. Thank you to all contributors, too.