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Apr 12, 2024

Imagery

• 🍰 QrCodePlugin (⭐2) - Easily render SVG/PNG QR Codes for your app.

Apr 09, 2024

Social

• 🍰 Comments plugin (⭐1) - Allows users to comment records, supporting different formats.

Apr 06, 2024

Social

• 🍰 Favorites plugin (⭐1) - Allows users to star/like/favor records.

Mar 15, 2024

Caching

• 🍰 CakeDC/CachedRouting plugin (⭐3) - Provides a cached version of the RoutingMiddleware to improve the load time of routes.

Code Analysis

• 🍰 cakedc/cakephp-phpstan (⭐29) - A PHPStan extension to resolve CakePHP magic around getter return types for the static analyzer.

• 🍰 lordsimal/cakephp-psalm (⭐2) - A Psalm extension to resolve CakePHP magic around getter return types for the static analyzer.

Dec 12, 2023

Migration

• 🍰 Upgrade/Migration Guide - Official migration guide.

Dec 11, 2023

Templating

• 🍰 Templating (⭐1) - HTML snippets as value objects, (Font) icons, and templating topics.

Dec 05, 2023

Filtering and Validation

• see Cake/Localized below.

Nov 30, 2023

Queue

• 🍰 QueueScheduler plugin (⭐3) - A dependency-free crontab-like scheduler as DB driven solution and addon to Queue plugin.

Oct 04, 2023

Templating

• 🍰 Tools:Tree (⭐336) - Tree helper to work with Core Tree behavior and handle tree structure output.

Aug 07, 2023

Code Analysis

• 🍰 IdeHelperExtra plugin (⭐2) - Useful IdeHelper addons for other plugins or custom use cases.

Aug 04, 2023

Authentication and Authorization

• 🍰 ApiTokenAuthenticator plugin (⭐3) - A simple token authentication plugin for CakePHP REST APIs.

Jun 23, 2023

CMS and applications built on CakePHP

• baserCMS (⭐157) - This is a website development framework with RESTful APIs. Installable as a plugin for CakePHP 4.x.

Feb 15, 2023

Queue

• 🍰 Queue plugin (⭐37) - CakePHP core queue system for the php-queue queue library.

CakePHP Tutorials

• Official Blog tutorial

Dec 17, 2022

REST and API

• 🍰 CRUD plugin (⭐373) - CakePHP Application development on steroids - rapid prototyping / scaffolding & production-ready code.

Nov 17, 2022

File Manipulation

• 🍰 FileStorage plugin (⭐4) - Flexible file storage and upload plugin.

Nov 11, 2022

Debugging

• 🍰 Sentry plugin (⭐8) A plugin to seamlessly integrate Sentry for errors and exceptions.

Oct 29, 2022

Demo

• Fluentd + Grafana Loki demo application (⭐1) - A demo application to send CakePHP docker container logs to Grafana Loki via Fluentd.

Oct 27, 2022

CakePHP Tutorials

• Official Content Management Tutorial

Oct 21, 2022

Debugging

• AssociationsDebugger plugin (⭐10) - A plugin that draws your model associations as diagram.

Jun 29, 2022

REST and API

• 🍰 SwaggerBake plugin (⭐56) - This plugin automatically builds OpenAPI from your existing models and routes for display in Swagger and Redoc.

Apr 26, 2022

Auditing / Logging

• 🍰 Version plugin (⭐52) - A plugin that facilitates versioned database entities.

Nov 02, 2021

Libs

• 🍰 makallio85/YamlRoute plugin (⭐6) - Configure routes with simple YAML files.

Jul 01, 2021

Miscellaneous

• 🍰 CakeDC/Enum plugin (⭐26) - A plugin to add enumeration list support to your app.

Jun 25, 2021

REST and API

• 🍰 MixerApi - Streamline development of modern RESTful APIs for your team's CakePHP project.

Jun 24, 2021

Development Environment

• 🍰 Galley - A small Docker dev environment for CakePHP development which includes a simple command line utility.

Jun 17, 2021

ORM / Database / Datamapping

• 🍰 Icings/Partitionable plugin (⭐16) - Partitionable associations allowing for basic limiting per group.

May 23, 2021

Miscellaneous

• 🍰 OPCache Preloader (⭐9) - An OPCache Preloader for CakePHP applications.

May 05, 2021

Development Environment

• Devilbox - A docker development environment for (CakePHP) apps to be auto-setup including a lot of tools.

May 04, 2021

Authentication and Authorization

• 🍰 ADmad/SocialAuth plugin (⭐48) - A plugin which allows you to authenticate using social providers like Facebook/Google/Twitter etc. using SocialConnect/auth (⭐545) social sign on library.

Apr 04, 2021

Development Environment

• 🍰 CakePHP Docker (⭐29) - A cakephp/app template for docker.

Mar 26, 2021

Authentication and Authorization

• ADmad/JwtAuth plugin (⭐164) - A plugin for authenticating using JSON Web Tokens.

ORM / Database / Datamapping

• Robotusers/TableInheritance plugin (⭐5) - Singe Table Inheritance (STI) plugin.

Search

• 🍰 Cake/ElasticSearch plugin (⭐87) - Alternative ORM using Elasticsearch as its backend.

Security

• 🍰 Recaptcha plugin (⭐20) - Simple, lightweight Google Recaptcha v2.

Templating

• 🍰 TwigView plugin (⭐13) - A plugin to use the Twig Templating Language for views.

Jan 14, 2021

REST and API

• 🍰 FractalTransformerView plugin (⭐17) - A plugin which allows using Fractal transformers for your API output.

Jan 03, 2021

Auditing / Logging

• 🍰 AuditStash plugin (⭐75) - Flexible and rock solid audit log tracking.

Debugging

• 🍰 CakephpWhoops plugin (⭐13) - PHP errors and exceptions for cool kids with filp/whoops (⭐13k).

Nov 18, 2020

Migration

• 🍰 Upgrade app (extended) (⭐23) - An extended upgrade app for 3.x=>4.x and some 5.x snippets.

Nov 17, 2020

Development Environment

• NetBeans (⭐46) - This package provides support for CakePHP in NetBeans 8.1+.

Oct 03, 2020

Authentication and Authorization

• Acl plugin (⭐112) - Managing ACL as database approach.

ORM / Database / Datamapping

• 🍰 Itosho/EasyQuery plugin (⭐25) - Behavior for easily generating some complicated queries like (bulk) insert/upsert etc.

Aug 04, 2020

Skeleton

• App template (⭐362) - An empty CakePHP project for use with composer.

Jul 23, 2020

Asset Management

• 🍰 AssetMix plugin (⭐29) - Provides integration with Laravel Mix asset compilation.

Jun 05, 2020

Testing

• 🍰 CakephpFixtureFactories plugin (⭐80) - Create your fixtures dynamically on a test basis, accelerate the writing and maintenance of your tests.

May 18, 2020

Queue

• CakeQueuesadilla plugin (⭐34) - A plugin that provides queueing integration with a variety of backends (BeanstalkD, MySQL, Redis, etc.).

Apr 17, 2020

File Manipulation

• 🍰 Josegonzalez/Upload plugin (⭐553) - A customisable plugin that uses Flysystem to write to multiple backends (Dropbox, FTP, S3, Local, etc.).

Apr 16, 2020

Email

• EmailQueue plugin (⭐56) - Email queue plugin with a preview and sender shell.

Apr 10, 2020

Debugging

• Execution order (⭐21) - A demo app to display the execution order of files, methods and callbacks.

ORM / Database / Datamapping

• Connehito/CakephpMasterReplica plugin (⭐11) - Switch master/replica database connections.

Apr 02, 2020

I18n

• 🍰 Cake/Localized plugin (⭐213) - Localized validation and ready-to-use translation PO files.

Mar 25, 2020

Geolocation

• 🍰 Geo plugin (⭐47) - Containing Geocoder behavior and GoogleMaps helper.

HTTP

• Http/Adapter/Cake library (⭐5) - Adapter for HTTPlug (⭐2.5k) HTTP client abstraction.

Mar 24, 2020

Architecture

• 🍰 Burzum/CakeServiceLayer plugin (⭐67) - Service layer and domain/business model implementation.

Mar 19, 2020

Security

• 🍰 Muffin/Obfuscate plugin (⭐36) - Primary key obfuscation/shortening using UUIDs, HashIds, Optimus, Tiny and/or custom obfuscation strategies.

Mar 11, 2020

Markup

• 🍰 Markup plugin (⭐3) - Allows to use PHP or JS based syntax highlighting.

Miscellaneous

• 🍰 Setup:Maintenance (⭐34) - Maintenance shell to go into maintenance mode for all requests with optional IP whitelisting.

Social

• 🍰 Ratings plugin (⭐9) - Allows users to rate records and displays ratings.

Mar 05, 2020

Security

• 🍰 Expose plugin (⭐8) - Expose entities through additional UUIDs instead of their AIID primary keys to obfuscate those IDs and data associated with these numerically ordered values.

Feb 28, 2020

REST and API

• Alt3/Swagger plugin (⭐64) - Swagger 2.0 documentation for your CakePHP APIs using swagger-php and swagger-ui.

Feb 22, 2020

Search

• 🍰 PlumSearch plugin (⭐19) - Implements custom, flexible and extendable search strategies. Implements PRG pattern.

Feb 18, 2020

ORM / Database / Datamapping

• RowLocker plugin (⭐19) - Exclusive locks for rows in your tables.

Feb 17, 2020

Security

• Bruteforce (⭐3) - Simple way to add Brute Force Protection to your installation without involving database.

Feb 10, 2020

ORM / Database / Datamapping

• Lampager/Cake plugin (⭐5) - Rapid pagination without using OFFSET.

Feb 03, 2020

Authentication and Authorization

• 🍰 TwoFactorAuth plugin (⭐36) - Allows two factor authentication using Google Authenticator or similar app to generate one-time codes. Based on RobThree/TwoFactorAuth (⭐1k) library.

Jan 28, 2020

Auditing / Logging

• 🍰 Muffin/Footprint plugin (⭐93) - Plugin to allow passing currently logged in user to model layer.

Authentication and Authorization

• 🍰 CakeDC/Users plugin (⭐519) - Complete user management (admin panel, remember me, etc), Social login (FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Instagram), RBAC, API and more.

• Muffin/Tokenize plugin (⭐12) - Event driven behavior for easily generating single-use security tokens.

Migration

• 🍰 Migrations plugin (⭐133) - (DB) Migration plugin.

ORM / Database / Datamapping

• 🍰 Muffin/Trash plugin (⭐82) - Soft-delete behavior for CakePHP.

REST and API

• 🍰 CakeDC/Api plugin (⭐61) - All-in-one solution to provide a complete API. It includes versioning, renderers, CRUD, authentication, extensions (paginate, filter, HATEOAS), and much more.

Jan 23, 2020

ORM / Database / Datamapping

• Muffin/Sti plugin (⭐6) - Single Table Inheritance for CakePHP.

Jan 15, 2020

Authentication and Authorization

• 🍰 Tools:Passwordable (⭐336) - Containing Passwordable behavior (⭐336) for a DRY approach on password hashing.

Caching

• 🍰 Cache plugin (⭐32) - For caching views (HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ...) as static cache files.

Miscellaneous

• 🍰 Tools plugin (⭐336) - Containing lots of useful libs, helpers, behaviors, components, shells and more.

Search

• 🍰 Tags plugin (⭐13) - For tagging and finding tagged records.

SEO

• 🍰 Tools:Slugged (⭐336) - Containing Slugged behavior to auto-generate URL-compatible slugs from titles.

Jan 09, 2020

Debugging

• 🍰 DebugKit plugin (⭐853) - The de-facto standard for debugging.

Security

• 🍰 Captcha plugin (⭐10) - Simple, unobtrusive and extendable captcha solution providing by default an image based math captcha.

Jan 08, 2020

Miscellaneous

• 🍰 Ajax plugin (⭐57) - A plugin to ease handling AJAX requests.

Templating

• 🍰 Meta plugin (⭐7) - Makes handling meta tags and SEO-relevant HTML markup DRY and easy.

Jan 07, 2020

Email

• Mailgun plugin (⭐23) - Email transport plugin for sending email via Mailgun.

Miscellaneous

• CakeImpersonate plugin (⭐7) - 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.

Navigation

• 🍰 Icings/Menu plugin (⭐11) - A KnpMenu (⭐1.4k) seasoned menu plugin for CakePHP.

Search

• 🍰 Search plugin (⭐171) - Provides easy searching/filtering for paginated views using PRG pattern.

Jan 03, 2020

Miscellaneous

• 🍰 Feedback plugin (⭐6) - Allow visitors to send quick and easy feedback incl. a screenshot via sidebar form.

Dec 31, 2019

Miscellaneous

• 🍰 Calendar plugin (⭐16) - For generating basic calendars. Includes IcalView for ICS calendar file generation.

Templating

• 🍰 Feed plugin (⭐13) - Containing an RssView class to easily generate (complex) RSS feeds.

Dec 30, 2019

Debugging

• 🍰 Setup plugin (⭐34) - A lightweight setup plugin containing debugging and maintenance tools.

ORM / Database / Datamapping

• 🍰 CakeDecimal plugin (⭐8) - A value object approach on handling decimals.

Dec 29, 2019

Auditing / Logging

• 🍰 DatabaseLog plugin (⭐43) - Simple and stand-alone logging to database instead of files.

Code Analysis

• 🍰 TestHelper plugin (⭐7) - Provides testing enhancements and TDD support as browser backend.

Migration

• 🍰 Upgrade app (⭐109) - Official upgrade app for 3.x=>4.x and 4.x=>5.x.

Miscellaneous

• 🍰 CakeDto plugin (⭐24) - Quickly generate useful data transfer objects for your app (mutable/immutable), replacing messy arrays and leveraging your IDE through typehinting and autocomplete.

Dec 28, 2019

Queue

• 🍰 Queue plugin (⭐300) - A minimal and dependency-free queue solution.

File Manipulation

• Josbeir/Filesystem plugin (⭐20) - Abstract Flysystem + file entity based upload plugin.

Dec 27, 2019

Asset Management

• 🍰 AssetCompress plugin (⭐368) - A complete asset manager for CakePHP.

Authentication and Authorization

• 🍰 Authentication plugin (⭐113) - Official CakePHP authentication middleware plugin.

• 🍰 Authorization plugin (⭐74) - Official CakePHP authorization stack.

• 🍰 TinyAuth plugin (⭐128) - Authentication and role-based (single/multi) authorization as very light-weight approach.

Code Analysis

• 🍰 IdeHelper plugin (⭐181) - Helps to make IDE support better by adding annotations to your existing code similar to what baking does to new code.

I18n

• 🍰 ADmad/I18n plugin (⭐42) - A plugin with I18n related tools.

Imagery

• 🍰 ADmad/Glide plugin (⭐34) - A plugin for using Glide image manipulation library.

Miscellaneous

• 🍰 Flash plugin (⭐12) - More powerful flash messages for your application.

• 🍰 Shim plugin (⭐37) - A plugin containing useful shims and improvements as basis for your application.

ORM / Database / Datamapping

• 🍰 ADmad/Sequence plugin (⭐44) - Behavior for maintaining ordered list of records.

• 🍰 Duplicatable plugin (⭐47) - Behavior for duplicating entities including related data.

• 🍰 Muffin/Orderly plugin (⭐22) - Allows setting default order for your tables.

• Muffin/Webservices ORM plugin (⭐89) - An ORM like interface for webservices.

PDF

• 🍰 CakePdf plugin (⭐374) - A plugin around PDF generation.

Security

• 🍰 Muffin/Throttle plugin (⭐62) - A plugin for rate limiting (API) requests.

SEO

• 🍰 Muffin/Slug plugin (⭐35) - A plugin for generating slugs and finding records by slug. Uses a pluggable architecture which allows using your own slug generator class.

Templating

• 🍰 Bake plugin (⭐108) - Provides code generation functionality.

• 🍰 BootstrapUI plugin (⭐337) - Bootstrap 4/5 integration.

• 🍰 CsvView plugin (⭐175) - A view class to easily generate CSV.

Nov 14, 2019

Testing

• CakePHP Codeception module (⭐46) - The official CakePHP integration with Codeception.

Demo

• Sandbox - A sandbox CakePHP application with lots of demos and plugin showcasings.

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

• dereuromark.de - An extensive CakePHP core dev blog.

CakePHP Reading and Listening

• CakePHP Cookbook(!) - The official CakePHP documentation.

Official

• cakefest.org - Annual CakePHP Conference.

MeetUps

• CakePHP-DE - MeetUps in Germany.

May 16, 2019

Testing

• 🍰 FriendsOfCake/Fixturize plugin (⭐23) - More efficient inserting fixtures when running test suites by decreasing amount of inserts (mysql only).

Apr 23, 2019

Demo

• Vue.js Demo App (⭐50) - A CakePHP + VueJS single page application skeleton.

Mar 02, 2018

CMS and applications built on CakePHP

• Croogo - CMS software (see 5.0 branch).

Jan 17, 2018

Development Environment

• Oven (⭐141) - Setup your favorite framework with 1 file and 1 click.

Jun 01, 2017

Demo

• BlogMVC (⭐8) - A simple Blog example with CakePHP based on BlogMVC Project (⭐213).

May 12, 2017

Demo

• RealWorld (⭐105) - Example CakePHP codebase containing real world examples (CRUD, auth, advanced patterns and more) that adheres to the RealWorld (⭐78k) spec and API.

Apr 29, 2017

I18n

• Translate plugin (⭐17) - Manage translations of your static content the easy way via web backend, incl. import from POT files, auto-suggest and auto-translate via API.

Apr 18, 2017

Development Environment

• Docker (⭐31) - CakePHP in a docker container environment.

Jan 07, 2017

Testing

• Fixtures plugin (⭐2) - Fixtures plugin to read existing fixtures and create table/insert data for quick start with app.

Dec 14, 2016

Demo

• Xeta (⭐53) - A resource to help people starting with CakePHP.

Jun 09, 2016

Development Environment

• CakePHP Vagrant Setup (⭐5) - Tool for spinning up multiple CakePHP vanilla dev environments.

Dec 27, 2015

Demo

• CakeFest - Demo application around the annual CakePHP Conference "CakeFest".

Dec 18, 2015

Libs

• Capcake (⭐114) - Deploy CakePHP applications using Capistrano.

• Chronos (⭐1.3k) - A simple standalone DateTime API extension (successor of Carbon).

• Composer Installers (⭐1.4k) - A multi framework Composer library installer.

• Composer/Packagist - A package and dependency manager.

• Graphviz (⭐71) - A Graphviz library.

• Rocketeer (⭐2.7k) - PHP task runner and deployment package.

Testing

• CakePHP CodeSniffer rules (⭐237) - The official CakePHP CS rules.

• Faker plugin (⭐18) - Faker (⭐27k) support for CakePHP fixtures.

Help

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

Nov 13, 2015

Development Environment

• Puppet - A server automation framework and application.

• Vagrant - A portable development environment utility.

Dec 27, 2014

Demo

• Bookmarkr (⭐17) A bookmarking application built with the CRUD plugin.

• Query Examples (⭐56) Advanced query building examples.

Oct 31, 2014

CakePHP Websites

• CakeDC - Articles around CakePHP.

• josediazgonzalez.com - A mainly CakePHP related core dev blog.

• mark-story.com - CakePHP lead dev blog.

Jul 30, 2014

CakePHP Websites

• jedistirfry.co.uk - A CakePHP related dev blog.

CakePHP Videos

• CakePHP - Channel about CakePHP videos.

CakePHP Internals Reading

• Top 10 (and more) core contributors (⭐8.7k) - Give 'em a hand.