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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:

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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

Plugins for Application Performance Monitoring.

Architecture

Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

Auditing / Logging

Plugins for auditing and logging.

Authentication and Authorization

Plugins and libraries for implementing authentication and authorization.

Caching

Plugins for caching data.

Code Analysis

Plugins for analyzing, parsing and manipulation codebases.

Debugging

Plugins for debugging and local development.

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.

File Manipulation

Plugins for file manipulation.

Filtering and Validation

Plugins for filtering and validating data.

Geolocation

Plugins for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

HTTP

Plugins for HTTP and client abstraction

I18n

Plugins for I18n (Internationalization) and L10n (Localization).

Imagery

Plugins for manipulating images.

Libs

Useful libraries or tools that don't fit in any of the other categories.

Markup

Plugins for working with markup.

Migration

Plugins and resources around migration and upgrading.

Miscellaneous

Misc plugins and libraries.

Navigation

Tools for building navigation structures.

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.

PDF

Plugins and software for working with PDF files.

Queue

Plugins for working with event and task queues.

REST and API

Plugins and web tools for developing REST-ful APIs.

Search

Plugins and software for indexing and performing search queries on data.

Security

Plugins and information around security, preventing vulnerabilities and protection against XSS and alike.

SEO

Search Engine Optimization.

Skeleton

Plugins and repositories around app skeletons.

Social

Plugins around social features.

Templating

Plugins for templating and lexing.

Testing

Plugins/Tools for testing codebases and generating test data.

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.

IDE specific compatibility information and tips can be found here.

Web Applications

CMS and applications built on CakePHP

Demo

Web-based (demo) applications and tools.

Resources

Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your CakePHP development skills and knowledge.

Help

Where to get help.

CakePHP Websites

Useful and current CakePHP-related websites and blogs.

CakePHP Books and Articles

Fantastic CakePHP-related (e)books and other reading material.

CakePHP Videos

Fantastic CakePHP-related videos.

CakePHP Tutorials

Must-do tutorials.

CakePHP Reading and Listening

Documentation and CakePHP-related reading and listening materials.

CakePHP Internals Reading

Reading materials related to the CakePHP internals and decisions.

Conferences

Official

International conference.

MeetUps

Regional meet-ups.

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.