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Plugins waiting to be added

• https://github.com/ypnos-web/cakephp-datatables

Plugins not yet upgraded from 2.x to 3.x

Use these plugins for inspiration or upgrade them so they can be added to the awesome list :)

Auditing/logging:

• AuditLog plugin - Records changes made to an object during CRUD operations.
• Monolog plugin - Use the comprehensive logger capabilities of Monolog.

Authentication and Authorization:

• Authorize plugin - Authorize classes for AuthComponent.
• GoogleAuthenticate plugin - Containing Google 2 step authenticate class for AuthComponent.
• Sanction plugin - Centralize all of those permissions in a single file.

Caching:

• 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.

CMS and applications built on CakePHP:

• Croogo - Open source content management system.

Debugging:

• GraphVizModels plugin - Display your model relations graphically. Upgraded for 3.x via dereuromark/CakePHP-GraphViz-Models.
• XHProf plugin - Quickly enables XHProf profiling for your application. Somewhat available for 3.x here.

Dependency Injection:

• CakeDependency plugin - Provides a dependency injection container and service registry/locator.

E-commerce:

• 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 plugin - A Stripe component.

Email:

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

Filtering and Validation:

• Tidy plugin - Validate and generate tidyed HTML output.

Geolocation:

• Geocoder plugin - A lightweight geocoding plugin.

Markup:

• Decoda plugin - A lightweight bbcode parser plugin.
• Markdown plugin - A Markdown parser plugin.
• MarkupParsers plugin - A collection of parsers.

Miscellaneous:

• 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.
• StateMachine plugin - State Machine Behavior.
• FeedbackIt plugin - Provides slide-in feedback form incl. screenshot for visitors.
• Datatable plugin - Datatables support.

Navigation:

• MenuBuilder plugin - A menu plugin.

NoSQL:

• MongoQB plugin - MongoDB database driver.
• NoSql - A low-lever interface to interact with nosql datasource.

Notifications:

• Notification plugin - A plugin that provides an notification system.

ORM and Datasources:

• Datasources plugin - Lots of different datasources.

Queue:

• CakeDjjob plugin - Quick and easy job queues, based on delayed_job.

REST and API:

• Rest plugin - a painless REST server Plugin for CakePHP.

Search:

• OpenSearch plugin - For creating installable search plugins for IE, Firefox and Chrome.
• Tags plugin - Tagging records the easy way.

SEO:

• Seo plugin - SEO plugin.
• Seo plugin - SEO plugin alternative.
• Sitemap plugin - Generates HTML and XML sitemaps for your CakePHP application.

Social:

• 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".
• Twitter plugin - A library to interface with Twitter and its OAuth workflow.

Templating:

• CakeFactory plugin - A factory for the Cake Toolkit (CTK), which provides configurable objects.
• 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.
• Mustache plugin - A Mustache plugin.
• Wysiwyg plugin - Support for various wysiwyg editors.

Third Party APIs:

• SMSFly plugin - Data source for sending SMS via sms-fly.
• Twitter plugin - A library to interface with Twitter and its OAuth workflow.

Other resources not yet upgraded from 2.x to 3.x

CakePHP Books and Articles:

• 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.
• Saving model data and security - Blog post with information on what to be careful about in 2.x when using CRUD forms and saving data.