dereuromark/cakephp-tools

A CakePHP plugin containing lots of useful and reusable tools

3.13.1 2026-05-25 20:59 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.2
• cakephp/cakephp: ^5.1.1
• dereuromark/cakephp-shim: ^3.0.0

Requires (Dev)

• cakephp/authentication: ^4.0.0
• fig-r/psr2r-sniffer: dev-master
• mobiledetect/mobiledetectlib: ^4.8.09
• phpunit/phpunit: ^11.5 || ^12.1 || ^13.0
• yangqi/htmldom: ^1.0

Suggests

• yangqi/htmldom: For HtmlDom usage

Conflicts

• cakephp/authentication: <4.0.0

MIT

• Mark Scherer

• helpers
• plugin
• components
• behaviors
• cakephp
• tools
• utils
• datasources

README

A CakePHP plugin containing several useful tools that can be used in many projects.

Version notice

This master branch only works for CakePHP 5.1+. See version map for details.

What is this plugin for?

Enhancing the core

• Auto-trim on POST (to make - especially notEmpty/notBlank - validation working properly).
• Disable cache also works for older IE versions.
• Provide enum support as "static enums"
• Default settings for Paginator, ... can be set using Configure.
• Provided a less error-prone inArray() method via Utility class and other usefulness.
• TestSuite enhancements
• A few more Database Type classes

Additional features

• Passwordable behavior allows easy to use password functionality for frontend and backend.
• Slugged, Reset and other behaviors
• Tree helper for working with (complex) trees and their output.
• Progress and Meter helper for progress bar and meter bar elements (HTML5 and textual).
• Text, Time, Number libs and helpers etc provide extended functionality if desired.
• Gravatar and other useful small helpers
• Timeline, Typography, etc provide additional helper functionality.
• Email as a wrapper for core's Email adding some more usefulness and making debugging/testing easier.
• I18n language detection and switching

Providing 4.x shims

This plugin for CakePHP 5 also contains some 4.x shims to ease migration of existing applications from 4.x to 5.x:

• See Shim plugin for details on most of the provided shims.

Installation & Docs

Full documentation: https://dereuromark.github.io/cakephp-tools/