Awesome CakePHP

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

Also see plugins.cakephp.org/packages/categories as a categorized list. You may also want to check out the PHP list at awesome-php as well as the generic awesome-awesomeness list.

This list is specifically for CakePHP 3.x (for CakePHP 2.x please see the cake2 branch). It is a recommendation for good plugins and solutions for this major CakePHP version.

Note: Strike-through means, that this CakePHP2.x plugin/resource has not yet been upgraded to 3.x.

The main advantage of this list compared to plugins.cakephp.org is, that here it can also be a subpart of a plugin - instead of only the whole plugin/repo itself. The grouping might also be more granular. Focus is on the specific task.

• Awesome CakePHP
  • Skeleton
  • Environment
  • Debugging
  • Templating
  • Email
  • Files
  • Dependency Injection
  • Imagery
  • Testing
  • Security
  • Code Analysis
  • Navigation
  • Asset Management
  • Geolocation
  • Logging
  • E-commerce
  • PDF
  • ORM and Datamapping
  • NoSQL
  • Queue
  • Search
  • Authentication and Authorization
  • Markup
  • Filtering and Validation
  • REST and API
  • Caching
  • Notifications
  • I18n
  • Social
  • SEO
  • Third Party APIs
  • Migration
  • Miscellaneous
  • Libs
• Software
  • Development Environment
• Web Applications
  • CMS and applications built on CakePHP
  • Demo
• Resources
  • Help
  • CakePHP Websites
  • CakePHP Books
  • CakePHP Videos
  • CakePHP Tutorials
  • CakePHP Reading and Listening
  • CakePHP Internals Reading
• Conferences
• Contributing

Skeleton

Plugins and repositories around app skeletons

• App template - An empty CakePHP project for use with composer.
• Crud plugin - CakePHP Application development on steroids - rapid prototyping / scaffolding & production ready code.
• Plugin Skeleton - A skeleton example to create a Cake3 plugin.
• Bake template "setup" - An example template on how customization of bake templates is possible.

Environment

Plugins for enviroment

• Enviroments plugin - Plugin to handle enviroments.
• Setup plugin - Plugin to handle very basic environments.

Debugging

Plugins for debugging

• Airbrake plugin A plugin to seamlessly integrate Airbrake with CakePHP for errors and exceptions.
• DebugKit plugin - The de-facto standard for debugging.
• Setup plugin - A lightweight setup plugin containing debugging and maintenance tools.
• Whoops plugin - PHP error for cool kids with filp/whoops.
• ClearCache plugin - For easily clearing the app cache(s).
• GraphVizModels plugin - Display your model relations graphically.

Templating

Plugins for templating and lexing.

• Address plugin - An address helper that outputs a marked up address.
• Bootstrap plugin - A Bootstrap 3 plugin with support for LESS.
• BootstrapUI plugin - Bootstrap 3 integration.
• CakeExcel plugin - An Excel view to generate XLSX files.
• Chocolate plugin - Front-End framework FormHelper extensions.
• CommonMark plugin - Adds CommonMark (markdown) support to models and views.
• Feed plugin - Containing an RssView class to easily generate (complex) RSS feeds.
• Js plugin - A library containing JS helper and alike (extracted from CakePHP2.x core).
• Liquid plugin - A plugin to use the Liquid templating language for views.
• SocialMeta plugin - Adds support for Facebook's OpenGraph and Twitter's Card meta tags.
• TwigView plugin - A plugin to use the Twig Templating Language for views.
• VideoEmbed plugin - Helper for embedding YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion videos.
• BoostCake plugin - A Twitter Bootstrap plugin.
• CML plugin - Provides further abstraction of the View layer by replacing the procedural PHP code with an XML based markup.
• CTK plugin - Allows views to be defined as a class.
• CakeFactory plugin - A factory for the Cake Toolkit (CTK), which provides configurable objects.
• CsvView plugin - A view to easily generate CSV.
• Mustache plugin - A Mustache plugin.
• Wysiwyg plugin - Support for various wysiwyg editors.

Email

Plugins for sending and parsing email.

• Email plugin - Email helper, layout and more.
• Mandrill plugin - Sending Email using Mandrill.
• SendGrid plugin - Plugin for SendGrid WebAPI.
• EmailQueue plugin - An email queue solution.
• Mailchimp plugin - The Mailchimp and Mandrill plugin.
• Postmark plugin - Makes email delivery using Postmark.

Files

Plugins for file manipulation.

• FileStorage plugin - Abstract file storage and upload plugin.
• FlyPie plugin - Abstract filesystem access using Flysystem.
• Proffer plugin - A customisable upload plugin with thumbnail generation.
• Upload plugin - A little plugin to upload file.

Dependency Injection

Plugins that implement the dependency injection design pattern.

• PipingBag plugin - Dependency injection container plugin that adds the ability to configure object instances and their dependencies before they are used, and to store them into a container class for easy access.
• CakeDependency plugin - Provides a dependency injection container and service registry/locator.

Imagery

Plugins for manipulating images.

• Imagine plugin - An image manipulation plugin and wrapper around Imagine.

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.
• CodeSniffer plugin - Auto-find code issues/smells and auto-fix CS errors.
• CodeSniffer plugin sniffs - Sniff packages/rules compatible with phpcs-fixer branch and the CodeSniffer plugin.
• Faker plugin - Faker support for CakePHP fixtures.
• Muffin plugin - FactoryMuffin support for CakePHP fixture records.

Security

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

• Saving model data and security - Information on what to be careful about in 2.x when using CRUD forms and saving data.

Code Analysis

Plugins for analysing, parsing and manipulation codebases.

• NewRelic plugin - Using New Relic for analysis and monitoring.
• NewRelic plugin - Makes analyzing your CakePHP app in New Relic easier.

Navigation

Tools for building navigation structures.

• KnpMenu plugin - A menu plugin based on the Knp Menu Library.
• MenuBuilder plugin - A menu plugin.

Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

• AssetCompress plugin - A complete asset manager for CakePHP.
• Less plugin - Less parser plugin for CakePHP.
• MinifyHtml plugin - Compress HTML output.

Geolocation

Plugins for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

• Geo plugin - Containing Geocoder behavior and GoogleMapsV3 helper as CakePHP 3 versions.
• Geocoder plugin - A lightweight geocoding plugin.

Logging

Plugins for generating and working with log files.

• Blame plugin - Plugin to update created_by and modified_by fields with logged in user id.
• Version plugin - A plugin that facilitates versioned database entities.
• AuditLog plugin - Records changes made to an object during CRUD operations.
• DatabaseLog plugin - Logging to the DB instead of filesystem.
• Monolog plugin - Use the comprehensive logger capabilities of Monolog.
• Tools:WhoDidIt - Containing WhoDidIt behavior to record changes made to an object during CRUD operations.

E-commerce

Plugins and applications for taking payments and building online e-commerce stores.

• Cart plugin - A shopping cart plugin.
• Payments plugin - Generic Payment Interface.
• Paypal plugin - To interact with Paypal's "classic" and new REST APIs.
• PaypalSource plugin - A Paypal REST client plugin.
• Stripe - A Stripe component.

PDF

Plugins and software for working with PDF files.

• CakePdf plugin - A plugin around PDF generation.

ORM and Datamapping

Plugins that implement object-relational mapping or data-mapping techniques.

• Money plugin - Money data type for CakePHP entities using sebastianbergmann/money.
• SoftDelete plugin - Soft delete for CakePHP models.
• Datasources plugin - Lots of different datasources.

NoSQL

Plugins for working with "NoSQL" backends.

• MongoQB plugin - MongoDB database driver.
• NoSql - A low-lever interface to interact with nosql datasource.

Queue

Plugins for working with event and task queues.

• CakeDjjob plugin - Quick and easy job queues, based on delayed_job.
• CakeResque plugin - A plugin for Resque, a library for creating background jobs.
• Queue plugin - A minimal dependency-free CakePHP only plugin around Queue.

Search

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

• ElasticSearch plugin - Alternative ORM using Elastic Search as its backend.
• Search plugin - De-facto search form standard built on PRG pattern.
• PlumSearch plugin - Search plugin implements custom, flexible and extendable search strategies. Implements PRG pattern.
• Elastic plugin - Connecting models to Elastic search types.
• OpenSearch plugin - For creating installable search plugins for IE, Firefox and Chrome.
• SimpleScope - For scoping finds.
• Tags plugin - Tagging records the easy way.

Authentication and Authorization

Plugins and libraries for implementing authentication and authorization.

• Authenticate plugin - Authentication classes for AuthComponent.
• CookieAuth plugin - A simple Cake 3 plugin to automatically authenticate users with Cookies.
• HierAuth plugin - A CakePHP plugin for hierarchical, role based, simple authorization.
• HybridAuth plugin - A plugin which allows using the HybridAuth social sign on library with CakePHP.
• JwtAuth plugin - A plugin for authenticating using JSON Web Tokens.
• MultiTenant plugin - Easily build SaaS enabled web applications.
• OpAuth - Opauth provides a standardized method for PHP applications to interface with authentication providers.
• Tools:Passwordable - Containing Passwordable behavior for a DRY approach on password hashing.
• TinyAuth plugin - Role based (single/multi) authentication as very light-weight approach.
• Authorize plugin - Authorize classes for AuthComponent.
• GoogleAuthenticate plugin - Containing Google 2 step authenticate class for AuthComponent.
• Sanction plugin - Centralize all of those permissions in a single file.

Markup

Plugins for working with markup.

• CommonMark plugin - Adds CommonMark Markdown parsing.
• Geshi plugin - For adding GeSHI syntax highlighting.
• Decoda plugin - A lightweight bbcode parser plugin.
• Markdown plugin - A Markdown parser plugin.
• MarkupParsers plugin - A collection of parsers.

Filtering and Validation

Plugins for filtering and validating data.

• Gourmet/Filters plugin - Extra dispatcher filters (maintenance, robots, ip, etc).
• Gourmet/Validation plugin - Extra validation providers (Respect, IsoCodes, etc.) and rules.
• HtmlPurifier plugin - A standards compliant HTML filter.
• Tidy plugin - Validate and generate tided HTML output.

REST and API

Plugins and web tools for developing REST-ful APIs.

• Rest plugin - a painless REST server Plugin for CakePHP.

Caching

Plugins for caching data.

• AutoCache plugin - A plugin that makes query caching easy.
• Cacher plugin - A plugin that caches query results.
• UrlCache plugin - Automatically cache the results of calls to Router.

Notifications

Plugins for working with notification software.

• Notification plugin - A plugin that provides an notification system.

I18n

Plugins for I18n (Internationalization) and L10n (Localization)

• I18nMessages plugin - A plugin for storing translation string in database instead of PO files.
• Localized plugin - Localized validation and ready-to-use translation PO files.
• ShadowTranslate plugin - A plugin with shadow table based replacement for core's Translate behavior.
• Transifex plugin - Imports locales via Transifex API.

Social

Plugins around social features

• SocialShare plugin - Link generator for sharing content on social networks.
• Bookmark plugin - Creates links to popular bookmarking web-applications.
• Comments plugin - Allows users to comment records.
• Facebook plugin - Facebook plugin.
• Favorite plugin - Allows users to favor records.
• Feedback plugin - Providing feedback.
• Like plugin - Provides a feature similar to Facebook "Like".
• Ratings plugin - Allows users to rate records.
• Twitter plugin - A library to interface with Twitter and its OAuth workflow.

SEO

Search Engine Optimization

• Tools:Slugged - Containing Slugged behavior to auto-generate URL-compatible slugs from titles.
• Slug plugin - A plugin for generating slugs and finding records by slug. Uses a pluggable architecture which allows using your own slug generator class.
• Sluggable plugin - A simple Cake3 plugin to slug fields and find records by slug.
• Seo plugin - SEO plugin.
• Sitemap plugin - Generates HTML and XML sitemaps for your CakePHP application.

Third Party APIs

Plugins for accessing third party APIs.

• AmazonSdk plugin - A plugin around PHP AWS SDK library.
• Ratchet plugin - Brings the Ratchet websocket package to CakePHP.
• SMSFly plugin - Data source for sending SMS via sms-fly.
• Twitter plugin - A library to interface with Twitter and its OAuth workflow.

Migration

Plugins and resources around migration and upgrading

• Migrations plugin - (DB) Migration plugin.
• Upgrade app - Official upgrade app for 2.x=>3.x.
• Upgrade/Migration Guide - Official migration guide.
• Execution order - A 3.x test app to display the execution order of files, methods and callbacks.
• Upgrade plugin - The most extensive 1.x=>2.x and partly =>3.x upgrade shells.

Miscellaneous

Misc plugins and libraries

• Ajax plugin - A plugin to ease handling AJAX requests.
• CakeManager plugin - A user management plugin with a built-in admin area.
• Dashboard plugin - Build beautiful dashboards for your cakes!
• Sequence plugin - Behavior for maintaining ordered list of records.
• 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, ...
• Travis - Easy travis setup for CakePHP plugins.
• UserTools plugin - User tools for login, registration, password reset and more. Works out of the box CRUD like and is highly configurable.
• Utils plugin - Containing useful components (Authorizer, Menu) and behaviors (WhoDidIt, Uploadable, Metas, Stateable).
• Yaml plugin - For using YAML config files instead of PHP arrays.
• Dotcake - Provides CakePHP project info for editor's cakephp plugins.
• Ftp plugin - FTP/SFTP plugin.
• Jsonrpc plugin - Provides server and client implementations of JSON-RPC.
• Users plugin - For allowing users to register and login manage their profile.
• MaintenanceMode plugin - Show a custom template for all requests when in maintainance with optional IP whitelisting.

Libs

Useful libraries or tools that don't fit in the categories above.

• Aura.Intl - A powerful I18n library - - used in CakePHP3.x anyway.
• Capcake - Deploy CakePHP applications using Capistrano.
• Carbon - A simple DateTime API extension - used in CakePHP3.x anyway.
• Composer Installers - A multi framework Composer library installer.
• Composer/Packagist - A package and dependency manager.
• Graphviz - A Graphviz library.
• Jenkins - The free alternative for private (GitHub) repos.
• Rocketeer - PHP task runner and deployment package.
• Travis CI - A continuous integration platform - de-facto standard for testing (GitHub) repos.

Software

Software for creating a development environment.

Development Environment

Software and tools for creating a sandboxed development environment.

• Cakebox - A Vagrant development environment powered by the CakePHP 3.x Console.
• PuPHPet - Web interface for building a Vagrant + Puppet box.
• Puppet - A server automation framework and application.
• Vagrant - A portable development environment utility.
• CakePHP.gitignore - The .gitignore file proposals.

Web Applications

CMS and applications built on CakePHP

• CakeBlog - Open source blog software.
• QuickApps-CMS - Open source content management system.
• Croogo - Open source content management system.

Based on CakePHP3.x.

Demo

Web-based (demo) applications and tools.

• Bookmarkr A bookmarking application built with the CRUD plugin.
• CakeFest - Demo application around the annual CakePHP Conference "CakeFest".
• CakePHP Sandbox - A sandbox CakePHP application.
• Query Examples Advanced query building examples.
• Xeta - A resource to help people starting with CakePHP.

Based on CakePHP3.x.

Resources

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

Help

Where to get help.

• CakePHP.ir - discussion with other devs and generic questions for Persian community.
• Google Group - 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-FR.org - The french community website.
• CakePHP-BR.org - The brazilian community website.

CakePHP Websites

Useful and current CakePHP-related websites and blogs.

• AD7six.com - A CakePHP core dev blog.
• CakeDC - Articles around CakePHP.
• dereuromark.de - An extensive CakePHP core dev blog.
• florian-kraemer.net - A CakePHP related core dev blog.
• jadb.io - A CakePHP related 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.
• waltherlalk.com - A CakePHP related core dev blog.
• andtxr.com - A CakePHP related dev blog.

Very few but increasing CakePHP3.x articles.

CakePHP Books

Fantastic CakePHP-related (e)books.

• CakePHP 2 Application Cookbook - CakePHP 2.x book by two core developers.
• Instant Starter - CakePHP2.x book (not for total PHP beginners).
• Rapid Application Development with CakePHP 2 - CakePHP 2.x book by CakePHP Core Developer @josegonzalez.

Written for CakePHP3.x.

CakePHP Videos

Fantastic CakePHP-related videos.

• CakePHP - Channel about CakePHP videos.

CakePHP Tutorials

Must-do tutorials.

• Official Blog tutorial

CakePHP Reading and Listening

Documentation and CakePHP-releated reading and listening materials.

• Cookbook(!) - The official documentation.
• CakePHP Podcast - The official CakePHP podcasts.
• CakePHP Reporter - a newspaper and collection of material about CakePHP.

CakePHP Internals Reading

Reading materials related to the CakePHP internals and decisions.

• Core Google Group - Discussions around the CakePHP core.
• 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.
• CakePHP-NewYork - MeetUps in the New York Metropolitan Area.
• CakePHP-NL - MeetUps in Netherlands.
• CakePHP-France - MeetUps in France.

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.