friendsofcake/crud-json-api

Listener for building CakePHP Crud APIs following the JSON API specification.

2.0.0 2025-07-02 16:40 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.1.0
• cakephp/cakephp: ^5.0.0
• friendsofcake/crud: ^7.2.0
• laravel-json-api/neomerx-json-api: ^5.0.2

Requires (Dev)

• cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer: ^5.1
• dms/phpunit-arraysubset-asserts: ^0.5.0
• friendsofcake/cakephp-test-utilities: ^3.0.0
• friendsofcake/search: ^7.0.0
• phpunit/phpunit: ^10.5.5 || ^11.1.3 || ^12.0.9

Suggests

• friendsofcake/search: Provides search capabilities for the Crud plugin.

MIT

• Bravo-Kernel
• Marlin Cremers
• Walther Lalk

• api
• cakephp
• crud
• json api
• jsonapi

README

JSON API Crud Listener for CakePHP

Build JSON API Servers with almost no code. Comes with advanced features like:

• Compound Documents (Deeply Nested Includes)
• Sparse Fieldsets
• Multi-field Filtering (Search)
• Multi-field Sorting
• Multi-field Validation
• Pagination

How does it work?

1. Structure your data using the powerful CakePHP ORM
2. Create (near-empty) Controllers
3. Let crud-json-api worry about JSON API

Documentation

Fully documented at https://crud-json-api.readthedocs.io/