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
  • APM
  • 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

APM

Plugins for Application Performance Monitoring.

• NewRelic plugin - A complete plugin that enables full New Relic integration for a CakePHP application, including CLI naming, exceptions sending, custom timings, etc. It does not depend on New Relic agent.

• Brunitto/NewRelic plugin - A simple plugin that enables just name transaction and browser timing for a CakePHP 3 application using the New Relic PHP agent.

Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

• AssetCompress plugin - A complete asset manager for CakePHP.
• Assets plugin - Dynamic and "on the fly" asset files.
• 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.
• 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/HybridAuth plugin - A plugin which allows using the HybridAuth social sign on library with CakePHP.
• ADmad/JwtAuth plugin - A plugin for authenticating using JSON Web Tokens.
• Authentication plugin - Official CakePHP authentication middleware plugin.
• Authorization plugin - Official CakePHP authorization stack.
• CakeDC/NavAuth plugin - A plugin for authenticating against Navision® service using SOAP or OData services. It includes NTLM authentication and more.
• CakeDC/Users plugin - Complete user management (admin panel, remember me, etc), Social login (FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Instagram), RBAC, API and more.
• CookieAuth plugin - A simple Cake 3 plugin to automatically authenticate users with Cookies.
• HierAuth plugin - A CakePHP plugin for hierarchical, role based, simple authorization.
• Muffin/OAuth2 plugin - OAuth2 authentication using the league/oauth2-client.
• Muffin/Tokenize plugin - Event driven behavior for easily generating single-use security tokens.
• MultiTenant plugin - Easily build SaaS enabled web applications.
• 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.
• UserPermissions plugin - Allow groups of users or single users to view a specific page.

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.

• IdeHelper plugin - Helps to make IDE support better by adding annotations to your existing code similar to what baking does to new code.
• TestHelper plugin - Provides testing enhancements and TDD support as browser backend.

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.
• ErrorEmail plugin - A plugin to email exception/error information to your dev team.
• Execution order - A demo app to display the execution order of files, methods and callbacks.
• Psa/FixtureCheck plugin - A plugin to help detect mismatches in live DB and fixtures in order to make fixture based tests more reliable and deployments safer.
• Sentry plugin A plugin to seamlessly integrate Sentry with CakePHP for errors and exceptions.
• Setup plugin - A lightweight setup plugin containing debugging and maintenance tools.
• Whoops plugin - PHP errors and exceptions for cool kids with filp/whoops.

Dependency Injection

Plugins that implement the dependency injection design pattern.

• PimpleDi plugin Allows dependency injection based on Pimple library.
• 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.

• PaypalWPP plugin - A package for communicating with Paypal Web Payments Pro for transactions and information about your account.

Email

Plugins for sending and parsing email.

• Elastic Email plugin - Email transport plugin for sending email via Elastic Email API.
• EmailQueue plugin - Email queue plugin with a preview and sender shell.
• Gourmet/Email plugin - Email helper, layout and more.
• Mailgun plugin - Email transport plugin for sending email via Mailgun.
• SendGrid plugin - Email transport plugin for sending email via SendGrid API.
• SparkPost plugin - Email transport plugin for sending email via the SparkPost API.

Environment

Plugins for environment.

• Environments plugin - Plugin to handle environments.
• Gourmet/Aroma plugin - Database based configuration.
• 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.
• FriendsOfCake/Upload plugin - A customisable plugin that uses Flysystem to write to multiple backends (Dropbox, FTP, S3, Local, etc.).
• Image plugin - Image behavior that works much like Cake's built in TranslateBehavior.
• Josbeir/Filesystem plugin - Abstract Flysystem + file entity based upload plugin.
• 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 that features a trait, behavior and helper to allow you to get sanitization and filtering where you need it. You can configure multiple sets of filter rules as well.
• 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 GoogleMaps helper.

I18n

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

• ADmad/I18n plugin - A plugin with I18n related tools.
• 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 - Managing i18n PO files and translations via Transifex API.
• 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.
• 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.
• HtmlToImageView plugin - Render HTML view as image (jpg or png) using wkhtmltoimage.
• Imagine plugin - An image manipulation plugin and wrapper around Imagine.
• Thumber plugin - A plugin to create thumbnails using intervention/image.

Libs

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

• Aura.Intl - A powerful I18n library - used in CakePHP 3.x core.
• 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.
• 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.
• YamlRoute - Configure routes with simple YAML files.

Markup

Plugins for working with markup.

• Gourmet/CommonMark plugin - Adds CommonMark Markdown parsing.
• 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 2.x=>3.x.
• Upgrade app (extended) - An extended upgrade app for 2.x=>3.x and between 3.x.
• Upgrade/Migration Guide - Official migration guide.

Miscellaneous

Misc plugins and libraries.

• ActionsClass plugin - Gives you the ability to manage your Controller actions as single classes.
• Ajax plugin - A plugin to ease handling AJAX requests.
• CakeAdmin plugin - A non-stable user management plugin with a built-in admin area.
• 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.
• CakeMiddlewares - A collection of Cakephp Middlewares.
• Calendar plugin - For generating basic calendars. Includes IcalView for ICS calendar file generation.
• Comments plugin - A fully customizable Comments plugin.
• CurrencyConverter plugin - A plugin to convert currency into another one.
• Dashboard plugin - Build beautiful dashboards for your cakes.
• DatabaseBackup plugin - A plugin to export, import and manage database backups.
• 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.
• Hashid plugin - Allows to use hashids to not expose the database ids to the user.
• Heartbeat plugin - Monitor the hearbeat of your application (e.g. whether the database is available and up-to-date).
• Interval plugin - Converts seconds to human readable string (string to seconds), uses business hours (1 week = 5 days, 1 day = 8 hours).
• LinkScanner - A plugin for recursively scanning links.
• Robotusers/Tactician plugin - Tools for Tactician command bus integration.
• 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.
• TokenVerify plugin - Easily issue tokens that can be used for mail authentication.
• Tools plugin - Containing lots of useful libs, helpers, behaviors, components, shells and more.
• 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.

• Icings/Menu plugin - A KnpMenu seasoned menu plugin for CakePHP.

NoSQL

Plugins for working with "NoSQL" backends.

• Monga plugin - Provides access to MongoDB datasource using thephpleague/monga.

Notifications

Plugins for working with notification software.

• ker0x/CakeGcm plugin - A plugin to send downstream messages to an Android or iOS device through Google Cloud Messaging.
• Notifier plugin - A plugin that makes creating and reading notifications easy.
• ker0x/Push plugin - A plugin to send push notifications through services like Firebase Cloud Messaging.

ORM and Datamapping

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

• ADmad/Sequence plugin - Behavior for maintaining ordered list of records.
• Duplicatable plugin - Behavior for duplicating entities including related data.
• JeremyHarris/LazyLoad plugin - An association lazy loader for entities.
• Lqdt/OrmJson plugin - Behavior and Trait for selecting, finding, getting and setting properties and values inside JSON type fields through CakePHP ORM.
• Money plugin - Money data type for CakePHP entities using sebastianbergmann/money.
• Muffin/Orderly plugin - Allows setting default order for your tables.
• Muffin/Trash plugin - Soft-delete behavior for CakePHP.
• PersistRelatedData plugin - Behavior for persisting selected fields of related models.
• Robotusers/Excel plugin - ORM wrapper for PHPExcel.
• Robotusers/TableInheritance plugin - Singe Table Inheritance (STI) plugin.
• RowLocker plugin - Exclusive locks for rows in your tables.
• Serializeable Data Types plugin - Serialize DB content as JSON or using phps serializing functions.
• Muffin/Webservices ORM plugin - An ORM like interface for webservices.

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.
• CakeQueuesadilla plugin - A plugin that provides queueing integration with a variety of backends (BeanstalkD, MySQL, Redis, etc.).
• Gearman plugin - A plugin for offloading CakePHP tasks to a Gearman Job Server.
• Queue plugin - A minimal and dependency-free queue solution.

REST and API

Plugins and web tools for developing REST-ful APIs.

• Alt3/Swagger plugin - Swagger 2.0 documentation for your CakePHP APIs using swagger-php and swagger-ui.
• Alt3/ValidationExposer plugin - Easily expose your application's validation rules.
• ApiPagination plugin - Injects pagination information from CakePHP's Paginator into serialized JsonView and XmlView responses.
• 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.
• Cors plugin - Activate CORS with Middleware.
• Cors plugin - A lightweight plugin for adding CORS headers to specified endpoints.
• CrudJsonApi plugin - Crud listener for building JSON API compliant APIs.
• FractalTransformerView plugin - A plugin which allows using Fractal transformers for your API output.
• RestApi plugin - Provides basic support for building REST API services.

Search

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

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

Security

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

• Captcha plugin - Simple, unobstrusive and extendable captcha solution providing by default an image based math captcha.
• CipherBehavior plugin - Cipher your entities data with this behavior. Encryption is done at PHP level using CakePHP Security class.
• Muffin/Obfuscate plugin - Primary key obfuscation using 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.
• Recaptcha Mailhide plugin - A plugin that allows you to hide email addresses using reCAPTCHA.

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.
• Seo plugin - Auto-creates and manages your SEO tags.
• 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.
• App template with material ui - CakePHP material ui admin template 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.

• CakeDC/Forum plugin - Forum plugin including categories, threads and replies, reporting messages, moderators, admin interface and more.
• 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.
• Bake plugin - Provides code generation functionality.
• 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.
• Datalist plugin - Support for HTML5 datalist element with the possibility to create new entries into associated models.
• Feed plugin - Containing an RssView class to easily generate (complex) RSS feeds.
• InlineCss plugin - A plugin to convert HTML style blocks to inline CSS on a View template (intended for use with email templates).
• JadeView plugin - Jade template engine plugin.
• 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.
• 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).
• Gourmet/Muffin plugin - FactoryMuffin support for CakePHP fixture records.

Third Party APIs

Plugins for accessing third party APIs.

• CakeTmdb plugin - The Movie Database (TMDB) API integration.
• GitHub plugin - Allows access to the GitHub REST APIs using the Webservice ORM.
• Ratchet plugin - Brings the Ratchet websocket package to CakePHP.
• Salesforce plugin - Allows use of CakePHP's ORM to Query and Interact with Salesforce Enterprise Instances.
• Twitter plugin - Allows access to the Twitter REST and streaming APIs using the Webservice ORM.

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.
• CakePHP Vagrant Setup - Tool for spinning up multiple CakePHP 3.x Vanilla Dev Environments.
• Docker - CakePHP in a docker container environment.
• Mixer - A plugin to discover and manage CakePHP plugins.
• NetBeans plugin - This plugin provides support for CakePHP in NetBeans 8.1+.
• Oven - Setup your favorite framework with 1 file and 1 click.
• PhpStorm plugin - CakePHP auto-completion support for console commands in PhpStorm IDE.
• PuPHPet - Web interface for building a Vagrant + Puppet box.
• Puppet - A server automation framework and application.
• Vagrant - A portable development environment utility.
• Vagrant CakePHP - Vagrant LEMP environment incl. latest CakePHP.

Web Applications

CMS and applications built on CakePHP

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

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".
• Croogo 3.x - Croogo 3.x demo
• 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.

• cakephpbrasil.com.br - The brazilian community website.
• CakePHP-FR.org - The french community website.
• CakePHP.ir - discussion with other devs and generic questions for Persian community.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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 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.