Awesome Cakephp Overview

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

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Awesome CakePHP

A curated list of amazingly awesome CakePHP 5.x+ plugins, resources and shiny things.

If you are looking for previous CakePHP resources please visit:

• the CakePHP 2.x version (⭐924) of this awesome list
• the CakePHP 3.x version (⭐924) of this awesome list
• the CakePHP 4.x version (⭐924) of this awesome list
• this wiki with a list of not-yet upgraded plugins (⭐924)

Additional lists you might find useful:

• CakePHP Plugins
• Awesome PHP (⭐32k)
• Awesome Awesomeness (⭐33k)

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
  • AI Tools
  • Architecture
  • Asset Management
  • Auditing / Logging
  • Authentication and Authorization
  • Caching
  • Code Analysis
  • Console
  • Debugging
  • Email
  • File Manipulation
  • Filtering and Validation
  • Geolocation
  • I18n
  • Imagery
  • Libs
  • Markup
  • Migration
  • Miscellaneous
  • Navigation
  • Notifications and Real-time Communication
  • ORM / Database / 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

AI Tools

Plugins and libraries for integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning tools.

• Synapse plugin (⭐2) - Expose your application functionality via MCP, with built-in tools and documentation search to help you discover and interact with your app's capabilities.

Architecture

• Burzum/CakeServiceLayer plugin (⭐68) - Service layer and domain/business model implementation.

Asset Management

Managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

• AssetCompress plugin (⭐372) - A complete asset manager for CakePHP.
• AssetMix plugin (⭐33) - Provides integration with Laravel Mix asset compilation.
• ViteHelper plugin (⭐22) - Provides integration with Vite asset compilation.

Auditing / Logging

Tracking changes and events in your app.

• AuditStash plugin (⭐1) - Flexible and rock solid audit log tracking.
• Bouncer plugin (⭐0) - The pendant to AuditStash, allow moderation and approval of add/edit/delete actions before the actual change is applied.
• DatabaseLog plugin (⭐45) - Simple and stand-alone logging to database instead of files.
• Muffin/Footprint plugin (⭐95) - Plugin to allow passing currently logged in user to model layer.
• Version plugin (⭐49) - A plugin that facilitates versioned database entities.

Authentication and Authorization

Plugins and libraries for implementing authentication and authorization.

• ADmad/SocialAuth plugin (⭐51) - A plugin which allows you to authenticate using social providers like Facebook/Google/Twitter etc. using SocialConnect/auth (⭐560) social sign on library.
• ApiTokenAuthenticator plugin (⭐3) - A simple token authentication plugin for CakePHP REST APIs.
• Authentication plugin (⭐115) - Official CakePHP authentication middleware plugin.
• Authorization plugin (⭐75) - Official CakePHP authorization stack.
• CakeDC/Users plugin (⭐526) - Complete user management (admin panel, remember me, etc), Social login (FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Instagram), RBAC, API and more.
• TinyAuth plugin (⭐130) - Authentication and role-based (single/multi) authorization as very light-weight approach.
• Tools:Passwordable (⭐334) - Containing Passwordable behavior (⭐334) for a DRY approach on password hashing.
• TwoFactorAuth plugin (⭐37) - Allows two factor authentication using Google Authenticator or similar app to generate one-time codes. Based on RobThree/TwoFactorAuth (⭐1.2k) library.

Caching

Storing data for faster retrieval.

• Cache plugin (⭐33) - For caching views (HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ...) as static cache files.
• CakeDC/CachedRouting plugin (⭐5) - Provides a cached version of the RoutingMiddleware to improve the load time of routes.

Code Analysis

Analyzing, parsing and manipulation codebases.

• cakedc/cakephp-phpstan (⭐38) - A PHPStan extension to resolve CakePHP magic around getter return types for the static analyzer.
• IdeHelper plugin (⭐183) - Helps to make IDE support better by adding annotations to your existing code similar to what baking does to new code.
• IdeHelperExtra plugin (⭐1) - Useful IdeHelper addons for other plugins or custom use cases.
• lordsimal/cakephp-psalm (⭐2) - A Psalm extension to resolve CakePHP magic around getter return types for the static analyzer.
• TestHelper plugin (⭐7) - Provides testing enhancements and TDD support as browser backend.

Console

Command-line tools and improvements.

• SignalHandler plugin (⭐2) - Cross-platform signal handling for CakePHP console commands with zero external dependencies. Supports Linux (pcntl), Windows (native API).
• Scheduling plugin (⭐2) - The plugin provides task scheduling capabilities with sub-minute precision, allowing you to schedule tasks as frequently as every second, with single crontab entry point. It allows tasks monitoring.

Debugging

Debugging and local development.

• AssociationsDebugger plugin (⭐11) - A plugin that draws your model associations as diagram.
• CakephpWhoops plugin (⭐14) - PHP errors and exceptions for cool kids with filp/whoops (⭐13k).
• DebugKit plugin (⭐845) - The de-facto standard for debugging.
• Execution order (⭐21) - A demo app to display the execution order of files, methods and callbacks.
• Sentry plugin (⭐12) A plugin to seamlessly integrate Sentry for errors and exceptions.
• Setup plugin (⭐35) - A lightweight setup plugin containing healthcheck(s), debugging and maintenance tools.

Email

Transports and tools for email handling.

• Queue plugin (⭐308) - A dependency-free queue-based mail solution using Mailer/Email class, allowing re-queue on (network) failure.
• SendGrid plugin (⭐5) - Email transport plugin for sending email via SendGrid API.

File Manipulation

Upload, storage, and file handling.

• FileStorage plugin (⭐5) - Flexible file storage and upload plugin.
• Josegonzalez/Upload plugin (⭐548) - A customisable plugin that uses Flysystem to write to multiple backends (Dropbox, FTP, S3, Local, etc.).

Filtering and Validation

Data sanitization and validation rules.

• see Cake/Localized plugin below.
• see Tools plugin below.
• RuleFlow plugin (⭐1) - A plugin that seamlessly transforms server-side validation rules into client-side JSON Logic validation, providing automatic form validation without requiring separate client-side validation code.

Geolocation

Geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

• Geo plugin (⭐49) - Containing Geocoder behavior and GoogleMaps helper.

I18n

I18n (Internationalization) and L10n (Localization).

• ADmad/I18n plugin (⭐44) - A plugin with I18n related tools.
• Cake/Localized plugin (⭐212) - Localized validation and ready-to-use translation PO files.
• Translate plugin (⭐17) - Translate your translations in the backend with ease.

Imagery

Image processing and manipulation libraries.

• ADmad/Glide plugin (⭐34) - A plugin for using Glide image manipulation library.
• QrCodePlugin (⭐9) - Easily render SVG/PNG QR Codes for your app.

Libs

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

• Chronos (⭐1.4k) - 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 (⭐73) - A Graphviz library.
• Rocketeer (⭐2.6k) - PHP task runner and deployment package.

Markup

Syntax highlighting and markup processing.

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

Migration

Plugins and resources around migration and upgrading.

• Migrations plugin (⭐138) - (DB) Migration plugin.
• Upgrade app (⭐112) - Official upgrade app for 3.x=>4.x and 4.x=>5.x.
• Upgrade app (extended) (⭐23) - An extended upgrade app for 3.x=>4.x and some 5.x snippets.
• Upgrade/Migration Guide - Official migration guide.

Miscellaneous

Misc plugins and libraries.

• Ajax plugin (⭐55) - A plugin to ease handling AJAX requests.
• CakeDC/Enum plugin (⭐30) - A plugin to add enumeration list support to your app.
• CakeDto plugin (⭐26) - Quickly generate useful data transfer objects for your app (mutable/immutable), replacing messy arrays and leveraging your IDE through typehinting and autocomplete.
• CakeHtmx plugin (⭐18) - CakePHP integration for htmx.
• Calendar plugin (⭐15) - For generating basic calendars. Includes IcalView for ICS calendar file generation.
• DatabaseBackup plugin (⭐23) - A plugin to to export, import and manage database backups. Currently, the plugin supports MySql, Postgres and Sqlite databases.
• Feedback plugin (⭐7) - Allow visitors to send quick and easy feedback incl. a screenshot via sidebar form.
• Flash plugin (⭐12) - More powerful flash messages for your application.
• Inertia plugin (⭐12) - Plugin for connecting a Vue 3 app and use an API interface using a middleware.
• OPCache Preloader (⭐12) - An OPCache Preloader for CakePHP applications.
• Setup:Maintenance (⭐35) - Maintenance shell to go into maintenance mode for all requests with optional IP whitelisting.
• Shim plugin (⭐40) - A plugin containing useful shims and improvements as basis for your application.
• Tools plugin (⭐334) - Containing lots of useful helpers, behaviors, components, commands, helpers, libs and more.

Navigation

Building navigation structures.

• Icings/Menu plugin (⭐12) - A KnpMenu (⭐1.4k) seasoned menu plugin for CakePHP.

Notifications and Real-time Communication

Working with notification software.

• Crustum/Broadcasting plugin (⭐0) - The Broadcasting plugin provides real-time event broadcasting for CakePHP applications using WebSocket connections compatible with the Pusher protocol or Redis pub/sub.
• Crustum/Notification plugin (⭐0) - The Notification plugin provides support for sending notifications across a variety of delivery channels.
• Mercure plugin (⭐0) - Push real-time updates to clients using the Mercure protocol.

ORM / Database / Datamapping

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

• ADmad/Sequence plugin (⭐44) - Behavior for maintaining ordered list of records.
• CakeDecimal plugin (⭐8) - A value object approach on handling decimals.
• CakeUid (⭐0) - A collection of UID field types for your Tables (UUIDV4, UUIDV6, UUIDV7, ULID).
• Duplicatable plugin (⭐52) - Behavior for duplicating entities including related data.
• Lampager/Cake plugin (⭐7) - Rapid pagination without using OFFSET.
• Muffin/Orderly plugin (⭐22) - Allows setting default order for your tables.
• Muffin/Trash plugin (⭐84) - Soft-delete behavior for CakePHP.
• Itosho/EasyQuery plugin (⭐26) - Behavior for easily generating some complicated queries like (bulk) insert/upsert etc.
• Icings/Partitionable plugin (⭐16) - Partitionable associations allowing for basic limiting per group.

PDF

Plugins and software for working with PDF files.

• CakePdf plugin (⭐375) - A plugin around PDF generation.

Queue

Working with event and task queues.

• Queue plugin (⭐37) - CakePHP core queue system for the php-queue queue library.
• Cake/Enqueue plugin (⭐0) - Database-driven message queue integration using the Enqueue library for CakePHP Queue plugin.
• Queue plugin (⭐308) - A minimal and dependency-free queue solution.
• QueueScheduler plugin (⭐7) - A dependency-free crontab-like scheduler as DB driven solution and addon to Queue (dereuromark) plugin.

REST and API

Plugins and web tools for developing REST-ful APIs.

• CRUD plugin (⭐375) - CakePHP Application development on steroids - rapid prototyping / scaffolding & production-ready code.
• 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.
• FractalTransformerView plugin (⭐18) - A plugin which allows using Fractal transformers for your API output.
• MixerApi - Streamline development of modern RESTful APIs for your team's CakePHP project.
• SwaggerBake plugin (⭐61) - This plugin automatically builds OpenAPI from your existing models and routes for display in Swagger and Redoc.

Search

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

• Cake/ElasticSearch plugin (⭐85) - Alternative ORM using Elasticsearch as its backend.
• CakeDC/SearchFilter plugin (⭐1) - Powerful and flexible solution for implementing advanced search functionality. Provides a robust set of tools for creating dynamic, user-friendly search interfaces with minimal effort.
• PlumSearch plugin (⭐19) - Implements custom, flexible and extendable search strategies. Implements PRG pattern.
• Search plugin (⭐171) - Provides easy searching/filtering for paginated views using PRG pattern.
• Tags plugin (⭐16) - For tagging and finding tagged records.

Security

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

• Captcha plugin (⭐10) - Simple, unobtrusive and extendable captcha solution providing by default an image based math captcha.
• Expose plugin (⭐9) - Expose entities through additional UUIDs instead of their AIID primary keys to obfuscate those IDs and data associated with these numerically ordered values.
• Muffin/Obfuscate plugin (⭐36) - Primary key obfuscation/shortening using UUIDs, HashIds, Optimus, Tiny and/or custom obfuscation strategies.
• Muffin/Throttle plugin (⭐62) - A plugin for rate limiting (API) requests.
• Recaptcha plugin (⭐21) - Simple, lightweight Google Recaptcha v2.

SEO

Search Engine Optimization.

• Muffin/Slug plugin (⭐36) - A plugin for generating slugs and finding records by slug. Uses a pluggable architecture which allows using your own slug generator class.
• Tools:Slugged (⭐334) - Containing Slugged behavior to auto-generate URL-compatible slugs from titles.

Skeleton

Plugins and repositories around app skeletons.

• App template (⭐381) - An empty CakePHP project for use with composer.
• BS flavored App template (⭐5) - An empty CakePHP project with BS5 and FontAwesome out of the box.

Social

Plugins around social features.

• Comments plugin (⭐2) - Allows users to comment records, supporting different formats.
• Favorites plugin (⭐3) - Allows users to star/like/favor records.
• Ratings plugin (⭐9) - Allows users to rate records and displays ratings.

Templating

Template engines and view generation.

• Bake plugin (⭐112) - Provides code generation functionality.
• BootstrapUI plugin (⭐352) - Bootstrap 4/5 integration.
• CsvView plugin (⭐176) - A view class to easily generate CSV.
• Feed plugin (⭐13) - Containing an RssView class to easily generate (complex) RSS feeds.
• LatteView plugin (⭐1) - A plugin providing Latte template engine integration.
• Meta plugin (⭐9) - Makes handling meta tags and SEO-relevant HTML markup DRY and easy.
• TemplaterDefaults plugin (⭐0) - Allows the use of default HTML attributes within CakePHP's string template system.
• Templating (⭐5) - HTML snippets as value objects, (Font) icons, and templating topics.
• Tools:Tree (⭐334) - Tree helper to work with Core Tree behavior and handle tree structure output.
• TwigView plugin (⭐15) - A plugin to use the Twig Templating Language for views.
• XlsView plugin (⭐0) - A view class to easily generate XLS using PHPSpreadsheet.

Testing

Plugins/Tools for testing codebases and generating test data.

• CakePHP CodeSniffer rules (⭐233) - The official CakePHP CS rules.
• CakephpFixtureFactories plugin (⭐1) - Create your fixtures dynamically on a test basis, accelerate the writing and maintenance of your tests.
• FriendsOfCake/Fixturize plugin (⭐24) - More efficient inserting fixtures when running test suites by decreasing amount of inserts (mysql only).

Third Party APIs

Accessing third party APIs.

Software

Software for creating a development environment.

Development Environment

Software and tools for creating a sandboxed development environment.

• CakePHP Docker (⭐29) - A cakephp/app template for docker.
• CakePHP Vagrant Setup (⭐5) - Tool for spinning up multiple CakePHP vanilla dev environments.
• DDEV - Docker based local env.
• Devilbox - A docker development environment for (CakePHP) apps to be auto-setup including a lot of tools.
• Docker (⭐30) - CakePHP in a docker container environment.
• Galley - A small Docker dev environment for CakePHP development which includes a simple command line utility.
• NetBeans (⭐47) - This package provides support for CakePHP in NetBeans 8.1+.
• Oven (⭐141) - Setup your favorite framework with 1 file and 1 click.
• Puppet - A server automation framework and application.
• Vagrant - A portable development environment utility.

IDE specific compatibility information and tips can be found here (⭐183).

Web Applications

CMS and applications built on CakePHP

• baserCMS (⭐184) - This is a website development framework with RESTful APIs. Installable as a plugin for CakePHP.

Demo

Web-based (demo) applications and tools.

• BlogMVC (⭐8) - A simple Blog example with CakePHP based on BlogMVC Project (⭐212).
• Bookmarkr (⭐17) A bookmarking application built with the CRUD plugin.
• Fluentd + Grafana Loki demo application (⭐1) - A demo application to send CakePHP docker container logs to Grafana Loki via Fluentd.
• RealWorld (⭐104) - Example CakePHP codebase containing real world examples (CRUD, auth, advanced patterns and more) that adheres to the RealWorld (⭐83k) spec and API.
• Sandbox - A sandbox CakePHP application with lots of demos and plugin showcasings.
• Query Examples (⭐56) Advanced query building examples.
• Xeta (⭐51) - A resource to help people starting with CakePHP.
• Vue.js Demo App (⭐48) - 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.

• Official CakePHP Forum - This is for generic questions and alike.
• 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.
• josediazgonzalez.com - A mainly CakePHP related core dev blog.
• mark-story.com - CakePHP lead 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 Content Management Tutorial

CakePHP Reading and Listening

Documentation and CakePHP-related reading and listening materials.

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

CakePHP Internals Reading

Reading materials related to the CakePHP internals and decisions.

• Top 10 (and more) core contributors (⭐8.8k) - Give 'em a hand.

Conferences

Official

International conference.

• cakefest.org - Annual CakePHP Conference.

MeetUps

Regional meet-ups.

• CakePHP-DE - MeetUps in Germany.

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 (⭐924), too.