Awesome CakePHP

A curated list of amazingly awesome CakePHP 3.x plugins, resources and shiny things.

If you are looking for CakePHP 2.x resources please visit:

• the CakePHP 2.x version of this awesome list
• this wiki with a list of not-yet upgraded plugins

Additional lists you might find useful:

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

Plugins

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.

Auditing / Logging

Plugins for auditing and logging.

• AuditStash plugin - Flexible and rock solid audit log tracking.
• 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.

• 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.
• Muffin/OAuth2 plugin - OAuth2 authentication using the league/oauth2-client.
• MultiTenant plugin - Easily build SaaS enabled web applications.
• TinyAuth plugin - Role based (single/multi) authentication as very light-weight approach.
• Tools:Passwordable - Containing Passwordable behavior for a DRY approach on password hashing.
• UserPermissions plugin - Allow groups of users or single users to view a specific page.
• Users plugin - Complete user management (admin panel, remember me, etc), Facebook/Twitter login, RBAC, API and more.

Caching

Plugins for caching data.

• Cache plugin - For caching views (HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ...) as static cache files.

Code Analysis

Plugins for analysing, parsing and manipulation codebases.

• NewRelic plugin - Using New Relic for analysis and monitoring.

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.

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.

E-commerce

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

Email

Plugins for sending and parsing email.

• Email plugin - Email helper, layout and more.

Environment

Plugins for enviroment.

• Enviroments plugin - Plugin to handle enviroments.
• Settings plugin - A plugin to manage your settings via your database.
• Setup plugin - Plugin to handle very basic environments.

Files

Plugins for file manipulation.

• FileStorage plugin - Abstract file storage and upload plugin.
• FlyPie plugin - Abstract filesystem access using Flysystem.
• Image plugin - Image behavior that works much like Cake's built in TranslateBehavior.
• Josegonzalez/Upload plugin - A customisable plugin that uses Flysystem to write to multiple backends (Dropbox, FTP, S3, Local, etc.).
• Proffer plugin - A customisable upload plugin with thumbnail generation.
• Upload plugin - A little plugin to upload file.

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 - Purifier Plugin Behavior that cleanses data before it is marshaled into the entity and/or before saving.

Geolocation

Plugins for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

• Geo plugin - Containing Geocoder behavior and GoogleMapsV3 helper.

I18n

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

• I18n plugin - A plugin with I18n related tools.
• ShadowTranslate plugin - A plugin with shadow table based replacement for core's Translate behavior.
• Transifex plugin - Managing i18n PO files and translations via Transifex API.
• Translation plugin - Extract pot files, translate string (manually, google, community), export translations to pot files.

Imagery

Plugins for manipulating images.

• ADmad/Glide plugin - A plugin for using Glide image manipulation library.
• Imagine plugin - An image manipulation plugin and wrapper around Imagine.

Libs

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

• Aura.Intl - A powerful I18n library - used in CakePHP3.x core.
• Capcake - Deploy CakePHP applications using Capistrano.
• Carbon - A simple DateTime API extension - used in CakePHP3.x core (deprecated soon).
• 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.
• 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.

Markup

Plugins for working with markup.

• CommonMark plugin - Adds CommonMark Markdown parsing.
• Geshi plugin - For adding GeSHI syntax highlighting.

Migration

Plugins and resources around migration and upgrading.

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

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.
• CurrencyConverter plugin - A plugin to convert currency into another one.
• 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 and more.
• 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).
• Wrench plugin - Maintenance Mode plugin. Easily extensible and customizable.
• Yaml plugin - For using YAML config files instead of PHP arrays.

Navigation

Tools for building navigation structures.

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

NoSQL

Plugins for working with "NoSQL" backends.

Notifications

Plugins for working with notification software.

• Notifier plugin - A plugin that makes creating and reading notifications easy.

ORM and Datamapping

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

• Duplicatable plugin - Behavior for duplicating entities including related data.
• Money plugin - Money data type for CakePHP entities using sebastianbergmann/money.
• Muffin/Trash plugin - Soft-delete behavior for CakePHP.
• PersistRelatedData plugin - Behavior for persisting selected fields of related models.

PDF

Plugins and software for working with PDF files.

• CakePdf plugin - A plugin around PDF generation.

Queue

Plugins for working with event and task queues.

• CakeResque plugin - A plugin for Resque, a library for creating background jobs.
• Queue plugin - A minimal dependency-free CakePHP only plugin around Queue.

REST and API

Plugins and web tools for developing REST-ful APIs.

• Cors plugin - A lightweight plugin for adding CORS headers to specified endpoints.
• Swagger plugin - Swagger plugin for documenting your CakePHP 3.x APIs.

Search

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

• ElasticSearch plugin - Alternative ORM using Elastic Search as its backend.
• Muffin/Tags plugin - For tagging and finding tagged records.
• PlumSearch plugin - Search plugin implements custom, flexible and extendable search strategies. Implements PRG pattern.
• Search plugin - De-facto search form standard built on PRG pattern.
• Search plugin - Search provides a search module for CakePHP applications.
• SphinxSearch plugin - Basic behaviour implementation for querying SphinxSearch indexes.

Security

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

• CipherBehavior plugin - Cipher your entities data with this behavior. Encryption is done at PHP level using CakePHP Security class.
• Muffin/Throttle plugin - A plugin for rate limiting (API) requests.

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.
• Sluggable plugin - A simple Cake3 plugin to slug fields and find records by slug.
• 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.
• Crud plugin - CakePHP Application development on steroids - rapid prototyping / scaffolding & production ready code.
• Plugin Skeleton - A skeleton example to create a Cake3 plugin.

Social

Plugins around social features.

• Ratings plugin - Allows users to rate records.
• SocialShare plugin - Link generator for sharing content on social networks.

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.
• CsvView plugin - A view class to easily generate CSV.
• 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.
• Meta plugin - Makes handling meta tags and SEO relevant HTML markup DRY and easy.
• 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.

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.

Third Party APIs

Plugins for accessing third party APIs.

• Ratchet plugin - Brings the Ratchet websocket package to CakePHP.

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

Web Applications

CMS and applications built on CakePHP

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

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.

Resources

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

Help

Where to get help.

• CakePHP-BR.org - The brazilian community website.
• CakePHP-FR.org - The french community website.
• 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 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.

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.

• Official Blog tutorial

CakePHP Reading and Listening

Documentation and CakePHP-releated reading and listening materials.

• CakePHP Cookbook(!) - The official CakePHP 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-France - MeetUps in France.
• CakePHP-NL - MeetUps in Netherlands.

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.