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 CakePHP2.x (for CakePHP3.x please see the cake3 branch). It is a recommendation for good plugins and solutions for this major CakePHP version.

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

Skeleton

Plugins and repositories around app skeletons

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

Environment

Plugins for enviroment

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

Debugging

Plugins for debugging

• Airbrake plugin - Integrate Airbrake for CakePHP exceptions and errors
• ClearCache plugin - For easily clearing the app cache(s).
• DebugKit plugin - The de-facto standard for debugging.
• GraphVizModels plugin - Display your model relations graphically.
• Setup plugin - A lightweight setup plugin containing setup tabs at the bottom.

Templating

Plugins for templating and lexing.

• Address plugin - An address helper that outputs a marked up address.
• 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.
• CakeExcel plugin - An Excel view to generate XLSX files.
• 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.
• Tools:RssView - Containing RssView to easily generate (complex) RSS.
• TwigView plugin - A plugin to use the Twig Templating Language for views.
• VideoEmbed plugin - Helper for embedding YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion videos.
• Wysiwyg plugin - Support for various WYSIWYG editors.

Email

Plugins for sending and parsing email.

• EmailQueue plugin - An email queue solution.
• Mailchimp plugin - The Mailchimp and Mandrill plugin.
• Mandrill plugin - Sending Email using Mandrill.
• Postmark plugin - Makes email delivery using Postmark.
• SendGrid plugin - CakePHP plugin for SendGrid WebAPI.

Files

Plugins for file manipulation.

• FileStorage plugin - Abstract file storage and upload plugin.

Dependency Injection

Plugins that implement the dependency injection design pattern.

• 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 for testing codebases and generating test data.

• CakePHP CodeSniffer rules - The official CakePHP CS rules.
• CodeSniffer plugin - A plugin to auto-find and auto-fix almost all CS errors.
• PHPUnit plugin - An easy way to install PHPUnit if you are not using composer.

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

Navigation

Tools for building navigation structures.

• MenuBuilder plugin - A menu plugin.

Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

• AssetCompress plugin - A complete asset manager for CakePHP.

Geolocation

Plugins for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

• Tools plugin - Containing Geocoder behavior and GoogleMapsV3 helper.
• Geocoder plugin - A lightweight geocoding plugin.

Logging

Plugins for generating and working with log files.

• AuditLog plugin - Records changes made to an object during CRUD operations.
• DatabaseLog plugin - Log into a database.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Elastic - Connecting models to Elastic Search types.
• OpenSearch plugin - For creating installable search plugins for IE, Firefox and Chrome.
• Search plugin - De-facto search form standard built on RPG pattern.
• SimpleScope - For scoping finds.
• Tags plugin - Tagging records the easy way.
• Tools:NamedScope - Containing NamedScope behavior for DRY find conditions.

Authentication and Authorization

Plugins and libraries for implementing authentication and authorization.

• AnnotationControlList pluin - Lightweight annotation-based ACL as plugin.
• Authenticate plugin - Authentication classes for AuthComponent.
• Authorize plugin - Authorize classes for AuthComponent.
• GoogleAuthenticate plugin - Containing Google 2 step authenticate class for AuthComponent.
• OpAuth - Opauth provides a standardized method for PHP applications to interface with authentication providers.
• Sanction plugin - Centralize all of those permissions in a single file.
• Tools:Passwordable - Containing Passwordable behavior for a DRY approach to modern password hashing.
• Tools:TinyAuth - Containing TinyAuth for a very lightweight (single/multi) role based access.

Markup

Plugins for working with markup.

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

Filtering and Validation

Plugins for filtering and validating data.

• 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)

• Localized plugin - Localized validation and ready-to-use translation PO files.
• Transifex plugin - Imports locales via Transifex API.

Social

Plugins around social features

• 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

• Seo plugin - SEO plugin.
• Sitemap plugin - Generates HTML and XML sitemaps for your CakePHP application.
• Slugger plugin - Automatically slugs URLs.
• Tools:Slugged - Containing Slugged behavior to auto-generate URL-compatible slugs from titles.

Third Party APIs

Plugins for accessing third party APIs.

• AmazonSdk plugin - A plugin around PHP AWS SDK library.
• SMSFly plugin - Data source for sending SMS via sms-fly.

Migration

Plugins and resources around migration and upgrading

• Migrations plugin - (DB) Migration plugin.
• Upgrade plugin - The most extensive 1.x=>2.x and partly =>3.x upgrade shells.
• Upgrade/Migration Guide - Official migration guide.

Miscellaneous

Misc plugins and libraries

• AJAX - AJAX and CakePHP.
• 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.
• MaintenanceMode plugin - Show a custom template for all requests when in maintainance with optional IP white-listing.
• Setup:Maintenance - Maintenance shell to go into maintenance mode for all requests with optional IP white-listing.
• Shim plugin - A plugin containing useful shims and improvements as basis for your application.
• MobileDetect plugin - Identifying mobile devices using the Mobile_Detect project.
• Tools plugin - Containing lots of useful libs, helpers, behaviors, components, shells, ...
• Travis - Easy travis setup for CakePHP plugins.
• Users plugin - For allowing users to register and login manage their profile.

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 - Deployment
• 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.

• 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

• Croogo - Open source content management system.
• Infinitas CMS - Open source content management framework.
• QuickApps-CMS - Open source content management system.

Based on CakePHP2.x.

Demo

Web-based (demo) applications and tools.

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

Based on CakePHP2.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 Websites

Useful and current CakePHP-related websites and blogs.

• 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

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.

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 Podcast - The official CakePHP podcasts.
• CakePHP Reporter - a newspaper and collection of material about CakePHP.
• Cheat Sheet - Lot of Code Snippets for the CakePHP Framework.
• Cookbook(!) - The official documentation.

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-Paris - CakePHP-Toulouse - 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.