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Plugins waiting to be added

Templating

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

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.

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.

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.