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Jan 12 - Jan 18, 2026

AI Tools

• Crustum/OpenRouter plugin (⭐0) - Integration with OpenRouter service for unified LLM access, supporting multiple AI models with chat completions, streaming, tool calling, and web search.

Asset Management

• CakeVite plugin (⭐0) - A fully-featured Vite plugin (spiritual successor of brandcom/cakephp-vite (⭐22)).

Miscellaneous

• AttributeRegistry plugin (⭐2) - A powerful CakePHP plugin for discovering, caching, and querying PHP 8 attributes across your application and plugins.

Queue

• Crustum/Temporal plugin (⭐0) - Workflow orchestration plugin for durable execution, reliable background jobs, and long-running processes with automatic retries.

Dec 22 - Dec 28, 2025

Queue

• Crustum/BatchQueue plugin (⭐0) - Unified system for managing batch job processing with parallel execution and sequential chains.

Dec 08 - Dec 14, 2025

Notifications and Real-time Communication

• Crustum/Broadcasting plugin (⭐1) - 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 (⭐2) - The Notification plugin provides support for sending notifications across a variety of delivery channels.

Dec 01 - Dec 07, 2025

AI 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.

Nov 24 - Nov 30, 2025

Auditing / Logging

• Bouncer plugin (⭐0) - The pendant to AuditStash, allow moderation and approval of add/edit/delete actions before the actual change is applied.

Testing

• CakephpFixtureFactories plugin (⭐1) - Create your fixtures dynamically on a test basis, accelerate the writing and maintenance of your tests.

Development Environment

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

Nov 10 - Nov 16, 2025

Miscellaneous

• DatabaseBackup plugin (⭐23) - A plugin to to export, import and manage database backups. Currently, the plugin supports MySql, Postgres and Sqlite databases.

Nov 03 - Nov 09, 2025

Auditing / Logging

• AuditStash plugin (⭐3) - Flexible and rock solid audit log tracking.

Oct 27 - Nov 02, 2025

Notifications and Real-time Communication

• Mercure plugin (⭐0) - Push real-time updates to clients using the Mercure protocol.

Sep 29 - Oct 05, 2025

Miscellaneous

• CakeHtmx plugin (⭐18) - CakePHP integration for htmx.

Queue

• Cake/Enqueue plugin (⭐0) - Database-driven message queue integration using the Enqueue library for CakePHP Queue plugin.

Sep 22 - Sep 28, 2025

Console

• 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.

Sep 15 - Sep 21, 2025

Filtering and Validation

• 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.

Templating

• TemplaterDefaults plugin (⭐0) - Allows the use of default HTML attributes within CakePHP's string template system.

Sep 08 - Sep 14, 2025

Console

• SignalHandler plugin (⭐2) - Cross-platform signal handling for CakePHP console commands with zero external dependencies. Supports Linux (pcntl), Windows (native API).

Templating

• LatteView plugin (⭐1) - A plugin providing Latte template engine integration.

Aug 11 - Aug 17, 2025

ORM / Database / Datamapping

• CakeUid (⭐0) - A collection of UID field types for your Tables (UUIDV4, UUIDV6, UUIDV7, ULID).

May 26 - Jun 01, 2025

Filtering and Validation

• see Cake/Localized plugin below.

• see Tools plugin below.

Miscellaneous

• Tools plugin (⭐334) - Containing lots of useful helpers, behaviors, components, commands, helpers, libs and more.

May 05 - May 11, 2025

I18n

• Translate plugin (⭐17) - Translate your translations in the backend with ease.

Mar 24 - Mar 30, 2025

Miscellaneous

• Inertia plugin (⭐12) - Plugin for connecting a Vue 3 app and use an API interface using a middleware.

Jan 13 - Jan 19, 2025

Email

• SendGrid plugin (⭐5) - Email transport plugin for sending email via SendGrid API.

Dec 02 - Dec 08, 2024

Architecture

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

Asset Management

• AssetCompress plugin (⭐370) - A complete asset manager for CakePHP.

• AssetMix plugin (⭐33) - Provides integration with Laravel Mix asset compilation.

Auditing / Logging

• DatabaseLog plugin (⭐44) - 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

• ADmad/SocialAuth plugin (⭐51) - A plugin which allows you to authenticate using social providers like Facebook/Google/Twitter etc. using SocialConnect/auth (⭐561) social sign on library.

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

• Authentication plugin (⭐114) - Official CakePHP authentication middleware plugin.

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

• CakeDC/Users plugin (⭐525) - Complete user management (admin panel, remember me, etc), Social login (FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Instagram), RBAC, API and more.

• TinyAuth plugin (⭐129) - 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

• 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

• cakedc/cakephp-phpstan (⭐38) - A PHPStan extension to resolve CakePHP magic around getter return types for the static analyzer.

• IdeHelper plugin (⭐184) - 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 (⭐6) - Provides testing enhancements and TDD support as browser backend.

Debugging

• 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 (⭐841) - 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.

Queue

• Queue plugin (⭐306) - A minimal and dependency-free queue solution.

• Queue plugin (⭐36) - CakePHP core queue system for the php-queue queue library.

• QueueScheduler plugin (⭐7) - A dependency-free crontab-like scheduler as DB driven solution and addon to Queue (dereuromark) plugin.

File Manipulation

• FileStorage plugin (⭐6) - Flexible file storage and upload plugin.

• Josegonzalez/Upload plugin (⭐545) - A customisable plugin that uses Flysystem to write to multiple backends (Dropbox, FTP, S3, Local, etc.).

Geolocation

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

I18n

• ADmad/I18n plugin (⭐44) - A plugin with I18n related tools.

• Cake/Localized plugin (⭐212) - Localized validation and ready-to-use translation PO files.

Imagery

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

• QrCodePlugin (⭐9) - Easily render SVG/PNG QR Codes for your app.

Markup

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

Migration

• Migrations plugin (⭐136) - (DB) Migration plugin.

• Upgrade app (⭐111) - 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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

Navigation

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

ORM / Database / Datamapping

• ADmad/Sequence plugin (⭐45) - Behavior for maintaining ordered list of records.

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

• 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 (⭐15) - Partitionable associations allowing for basic limiting per group.

PDF

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

REST and API

• CRUD plugin (⭐376) - CakePHP Application development on steroids - rapid prototyping / scaffolding & production-ready code.

• CakeDC/Api plugin (⭐60) - 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 (⭐60) - This plugin automatically builds OpenAPI from your existing models and routes for display in Swagger and Redoc.

Search

• Cake/ElasticSearch plugin (⭐85) - Alternative ORM using Elasticsearch as its backend.

• CakeDC/SearchFilter plugin (⭐2) - 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

• Captcha plugin (⭐8) - 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 (⭐20) - Simple, lightweight Google Recaptcha v2.

SEO

• Muffin/Slug plugin (⭐37) - 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.

Social

• 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

• Bake plugin (⭐110) - Provides code generation functionality.

• BootstrapUI plugin (⭐350) - 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.

• Meta plugin (⭐9) - Makes handling meta tags and SEO-relevant HTML markup DRY and easy.

• 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

• FriendsOfCake/Fixturize plugin (⭐24) - More efficient inserting fixtures when running test suites by decreasing amount of inserts (mysql only).

Development Environment

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

• DDEV - Docker based local env.

CMS and applications built on CakePHP

• baserCMS (⭐188) - This is a website development framework with RESTful APIs. Installable as a plugin for CakePHP.

CakePHP Websites

• CakeDC - Articles around CakePHP.

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

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

CakePHP Tutorials

• Official Content Management Tutorial

Nov 04 - Nov 10, 2024

Skeleton

• BS flavored App template (⭐4) - An empty CakePHP project with BS5 and FontAwesome out of the box.

Oct 09 - Oct 15, 2023

Development Environment

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

Feb 13 - Feb 19, 2023

Skeleton

• App template (⭐384) - An empty CakePHP project for use with composer.

Oct 24 - Oct 30, 2022

Demo

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

May 03 - May 09, 2021

Development Environment

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

Nov 23 - Nov 29, 2020

Development Environment

• NetBeans (⭐47) - This package provides support for CakePHP in NetBeans 8.1+.

Nov 18 - Nov 24, 2019

Demo

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

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

• 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.

Apr 29 - May 05, 2019

Demo

• Vue.js Demo App (⭐48) - A CakePHP + VueJS single page application skeleton.

Jan 15 - Jan 21, 2018

Development Environment

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

May 29 - Jun 04, 2017

Demo

• BlogMVC (⭐8) - A simple Blog example with CakePHP based on BlogMVC Project (⭐212).

May 08 - May 14, 2017

Demo

• RealWorld (⭐104) - Example CakePHP codebase containing real world examples (CRUD, auth, advanced patterns and more) that adheres to the RealWorld (⭐83k) spec and API.

Apr 17 - Apr 23, 2017

Development Environment

• Docker (⭐30) - CakePHP in a docker container environment.

Dec 12 - Dec 18, 2016

Demo

• Xeta (⭐51) - A resource to help people starting with CakePHP.

Dec 21 - Dec 27, 2015

Libs

• 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.

Testing

• CakePHP CodeSniffer rules (⭐231) - The official CakePHP CS rules.

Nov 16 - Nov 22, 2015

Development Environment

• Puppet - A server automation framework and application.

• Vagrant - A portable development environment utility.

Dec 29 - Jan 04, 2014

Demo

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

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

Aug 04 - Aug 10, 2014

CakePHP Videos

• CakePHP - Channel about CakePHP videos.

CakePHP Internals Reading

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