As you can see from the url, this project is hosted in a different place than other projects from the Cake team. It would be good if all such projects would be consolidated in one single place.

Anyway, here a list with places from where you can get the source code of those projects:

• CakePHP
• CakeBook
• Bakery application
• DebugKit
• CakeIRC and CakeAMF

Update 2008-11-21: See also the official announcement of The Chaw.

Let’s start with the projects which are alive:

Event Portal: Event portal seems to be a kind of social network. From the project description: “This is a Portal where User can interact with others, share there blogs, write personal messages to other users, maintain a photo gallery and create events.”

There is an alpha version available as download.

Centerflow: Centerflow is a project management application. You can download a release from CakeForge. The project’s main website is centerflow.org.

Desmix CMS: As the name indicates, it is a content management system. There is some code in the repository, but no release yet.

Instantaneous: The goal of instantaneous is to build a tumblelog application. No release yet, but there is some code in the repository.

Control Tower: The Control Tower project is about creating an application like trac. The project hasn’t released any code yet, but you can find some code plus a road map in the repository.

Classifieds: This application allows users to browse and post classified ads. There is an alpha version available as download.

And here the projects which seem to be dead:

Design Studio – a form builder: A form builder.

Cowsay: I don’t know what the idea of this project was.

Listing Manager: A listing manager.

Gift Register: A web-based solution for providing your guests with a list of the things you’d most appreciate receiving on your wedding day, or other special occasion.

CupcakeBB: A forum plug-in.

FrontOffice for OOTP: No idea what this project is about.

As always, good luck to the still active projects!

What is this project about? From the NoseRub website:

NoseRub wants to be an inspiration, protocol and implementation of a decentralized social network.

Currently, the focus is on an example implementation (based on CakePHP 1.2), of which we could release version 0.5 last week (but there is still a lot to do, of course *g*). You can see it in action on identoo.com, or you can download and install it on your own server (it requires PHP 5).

Feedback is welcome :)

I grouped the projects in four categories: alive, new, half-dead, and dead. I call a project “alive” if it provides some code, “new” projects are projects created recently, “half-dead” projects posted at least one news item, but no code, and projects are “dead” if there was no activity at all.

Let’s start with the projects which are alive:

Selling Made Simple: A shopping cart. There is an alpha version available as download and the project also has its own website: http://sellingmadesimple.org. I am not sure whether this project is still on CakeForge, at least on the website it points to SourceForge.

Attach This!: A solution for file uploads. An alpha version of this project is available.

mpFacebook: This project follows the goal to integrate Facebook into CakePHP. No release yet, but there is some code in the repository.

MochaLogger: A logging project that follows the logging style of Log4j. You can download it here.

Attachments: Sounds similar to the “Attach this!” project, it allows you to associate files with models. An alpha version (plus some other files) is already available.

New projects:

hans (here’s yet another displayengine): Xslt-based display extensions. I am not sure what exactly this project is about.

Lviv_Pizza: An application to manage a pizza restaurant. For learning purposes.

People manager: A contact manager.

eddyTicket (ticketing system): As the title says, a ticket management system.

Half-dead projects:

BAdaptive CMS: A CMS.

Project Manager: A project manager.

And last, the projects which seem to be dead:

TinyCart: Shopping cart.

Business Directory: Business directory with user reviews and comments.

OpenID for CakePHP: OpenID plug-in.

Cities Gallery Management: Application to manage galleries.

Gestor de Tareas: Task management application.

ScratchR: social media repository: Community-driven media repository.

KSV Noordergouw: Website for an association.

xbaseinc: A demo application.

FooBuzz Event Manager: Event Manager application.

SpaceBake: Tool to manage online game alliances.

Collaborative Data Store: Data management application.

As always, good luck to the projects which are alive, hopefully you get a lot of downloads ;-)

Frosting: Frosting will be a site network CMS, whatever that may be. No code available yet.

MailingBaker: The goal of the MailingBaker project is to provide a plug-in to manage newsletters. No code available yet.

iGo CMS: This project seems to be a placeholder project, i.e. it simply points to another location where the development happens and where the download is available. In this case the project is located on sourceforge.

Sintok: Sintok will become an easy-to-use quiz creator. No code available yet.

Davidicus CMS: Davidicus is another CMS project. It already provides a release (see also the screenshot). The project is looking for contributors.

Simple Blog: As the title indicates, this project is about creating a blog application. No code available yet.

johnny cache: A project name which made me smile ;-) It is a caching system which should be simpler than the built-in system. You can download a release from CakeForge.

EZPDO + CakePHP: This project allows to use ezpdo, a object-relational mapper, together with CakePHP. A release is available.

Anno Domini – Calendar: Anno Domini is an Ajax powered calendar system. You can see it in action at http://education.byu.edu/calendar. You can download it from CakeForge, it even comes with a starter’s guide.

easy poll: As the name already says, it is a poll system. A release is available as download.

As always, good luck to the developers and their projects!

Lumad CMS: This project is also known as CupCake CMS and it looks like this is the primary project name as the project site is available at http://www.cupcakecms.com. A preview version is available as download.

Poophouse: The Poophouse will become an application for realtors.

Agora Forums: As the name indicates, this project’s goal is to write a forum application. No release yet, but there is some code available in the repository.

The Mashup API Project: The goal of this project by Nate is to provide a collection of components, behaviors and helpers to integrate various web service APIs. An alpha version is available as download.

DBDesigner 4 to CakePHP scaffold: dbdesigner2cake allows you to generate models and controllers from DBDesigner 4 files. You can download it from CakeForge.

Web Rocket: Webrocket is another CMS project. An alpha version is available as download. It seems that this project has moved to Assembla.

TohDoh: TohDoh is an Ajax todo list demo application. Installation instructions and a live demo can be found on CraZyLeGs website. Its source code can be downloaded from CakeForge.

Flow: Flow is an activity based petri net workflow plug-in. There exists a beta release of Flow.

PeoplePie: A social networking site.

Vanilla IDE: The goal of Vanilla IDE is to provide a platform independent IDE for CakePHP application development. “Platform independent IDE” sounds to me as it will be based on Eclipse. Let’s hope this project will be more lucky than a previous attempt to build an Eclipse plug-in.

Content Manager Plugin: The Content Manager is a plug-in to edit database tables directly.

Glued!: Glued! is another project related to social networking.

Poblog: Poblog stands for “Podcasting + Blogging” and should become a blog platform.

Hotcakes Hotspot Manager: An application to manage a hotspot.

Object Model: The Object Model project will provide method wrappers for the model to return objects instead of arrays, a feature planned for CakePHP 2.0.0.x.

As always, good luck to all developers of those projects!

Noswad Open Source: This project is intended to become the place for the demos from http://www.noswad.me.uk/, the website of Andy Dawson (aka ad7six).

Pagebakery CMS: A CMS projects of two Dutch students and a hosting company. There is no code available yet, but you can follow the progress of this project via their blog: http://pagebakery.nl/.

xbaseCRM: The goal of xbaseCRM is to build an open-source version of SugarCRM, even though SugarCRM itself is available in an open-source version…

conman – Conference Manager: conman is a new project of Tarique Sani, the author of cheesecake. This project is about creating a tool to manage technical conferences.

phpGACL for CakePHP: A plug-in written by Mariano Iglesias which allows you to use phpGACL with CakePHP. There is a release available, and some documentation in the form of an article, an API and a screencast.

Custom Product Designer: No idea what this project is about, there is no code and no description.

slackr F.C.: slackr F.C. should become a community portal.

Karamelo: Karamelo is an e-learning platform. It seems like a dead project on CakeForge, as the development happens on http://trac.mononeurona.org/trac/karamelo and the package can be downloaded from Chipotle Software.

pastryMail: pastryMail is webmail client POP3 and IMAP accounts. There is some code available in the repository.

Drake: Drake is another project by Mariano Iglesias and is a Drupal-CakePHP bridge. It seems dead on CakeForge, but there is a project site and you can download it from the Drupal site.

Jake: Jake is again a project by Mariano Iglesias. It is a Joomla-CakePHP bridge. There is a release available, and the project has also its own project site.

jobscry user manager: The goal of this project is to create a tool to manage users, groups and permissions. No release yet, but there is some code available in the repository.

Photo Island Photoblogging: A photoblog application. Seems to be dead, at least there is no activity and no code.

MasterBake – extending bake.php: MasterBake is a replacement for the bake.php script. It allows you to create your (scaffolded) application in a very, very short time. You can download it from http://cakeforge.org/frs/?group_id=128.

As always, good luck to the developer of those projects!

<link rel="openid.server" href="http://www.myopenid.com/server" />
<link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://dh.myopenid.com" />

This approach comes with two potential problems:

• I cannot authenticate myself if my domain is down,
• and the same applies if the OpenID server is down

To the first problem I don’t have a solution yet, but for the second problem the solution is easy. Modify the snippet above and you can still authenticate with your OpenID by using a different OpenID server. It is just a bit cumbersome to login to your server and to do that change manually. So I wrote a very simple CakePHP application which allows you to switch the used OpenID server on-the-fly. It is one of those “15 minutes” projects where it is almost overkill to use CakePHP ;-)

You can find the application in the downloads section. The installation is simple, the zip contains a complete app folder (no database needed). You may have to modify app/webroot/index.php and to make the tmp folder writable, and, of course, you have to add the OpenID servers and delegates you want to use. They are defined in app/models/delegate.php. Now, to change the OpenID server you simply call example.com/change and a different OpenID server will be used.

That’s it.

Bibliography Management: From the project site: “This project aims at creating a web bibliography management system that can allow multiple researchers to export, import and synchronize their bibliography for citation and sharing purposes.” Rather unusual for a new project is the number of developers: including the project manager there are eight persons involved in this project.

Sampler: Sampler allows you to setup multiple choice surveys. The project already provides a release.

Solliform CMS: As the name indicates this is a CMS project, this time for non-profit organizations.

Time Sheet: Time Sheet is an application for freelancers to track their time and to bill the clients. A release is available.

Sports Club CMS: As the name indicates this project should become a CMS for sport clubs. But the project seems to be dead as there is no activity.

ACL Admin: ACL Admin is a project by AD7six (Andy Dawson). It is a plug-in for administering ACL objects. A release is available.

AzulCMS: Another CMS project which seems dead.

PING: And again a CMS project which seems to be dead.

simple poll: This last project seems also to be dead.

As always, good luck to the developers of the still active projects!

There exists a solution for that problem: OpenID. But unfortunately, it is not that wide-spread yet. And so I wrote a little application, j.42dh, which allows you to access your username/password combinations with your OpenID. If you have any qualms about using such a service, which I can understand as theoretically I will get access to all your accounts, you can also download the application and install it on your own server.

Your feedback is welcome :)