cakephp-toolsThe CakePHP Toolbox

Stop reinventing slugs, password flows, bitmasks, and the dozen helpers you copy into every CakePHP app.

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Behaviors you'd write yourself anyway

Slugs, bitmasks, password change with confirm, JSON columns, soft toggles — ten battle-tested ORM behaviors instead of a folder full of half-finished traits.

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Your AppView, pre-loaded

Format, Html, Form, Tree, Progress and a Common helper covering the rendering you keep adding to every project. Load two helpers and stop writing element wrappers.

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A Table base that knows the things you forgot

Validation rules core CakePHP doesn't ship (URL, email, phone, ranges), plus Tokens for one-time login links and native Enum integration.

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Controller boilerplate, gone

Auto-trim POST data so empty validation behaves. Mobile detection. Safe redirect-to-referer with allow-listing. Three components instead of three new files in src/Controller/Component.

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i18n + URL helpers without the dance

Detect and switch locale with one component call. Improved DateTime/Date handling. URL generation utilities for the cases the core helper doesn't cover.

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Plus the rest

ExceptionTrap for cleaner errors, FileLog for one-line custom logging, login-link auth flow, Datalist widget, Inflect command. The whole [plugin ecosystem](/guide/ecosystem) connects them.