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ed3/search
==========

Search Plugin for CakePHP

5.2(12mo ago)09MITPHPPHP >=8.1

Since Jul 22Pushed 12mo ago1 watchersCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/ed3/search)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/ed3/search)[ Docs](http://github.com/ed3/search)[ RSS](/packages/ed3-search/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1w ago

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Search Plugin
=============

[](#search-plugin)

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This **Search** plugin enables developers to quickly implement the [POST-Redirect-GET](docs/Documentation/Post-Redirect-Get.md) pattern.

The Search plugin is an easy way to implement PRG in your application, and provides you with a paginate-able search in any controller. It supports simple methods to search inside models using strict and non-strict comparing, but also allows you to implement any complex type of searching.

- **PRG Component:** The component will turn GET parameters into POST to populate a form and vice versa.
- **Search Behaviour:** The behavior will generate search conditions passed in the provided GET parameters.

This is *not* a Search Engine or Index
--------------------------------------

[](#this-is-not-a-search-engine-or-index)

As mentioned before, this plugin helps you to implement searching for data using the [PRG](Docs/Documentation/Post-Redirect-Get.md) pattern. It is **not** in any way a search engine implementation or search index builder, although it can be used to search an index such as *Elastic Search* or *Sphinx*.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- Search 3.2 => CakePHP 3.10 and PHP 5.6
- Search 4.x => CakePHP 4.4 and PHP 7.4
- Search 5.0 => CakePHP 5.0 and PHP 8.1
- Search 5.2 => CakePHP 5.2 and PHP 8.1

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

For documentation, see the [Docs](docs/Home.md) directory of this repository.

###  Health Score

34

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LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance50

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~232 days

Total

7

Last Release

364d ago

Major Versions

3.2 → 4.42022-10-12

4.5 → 5.02024-10-04

PHP version history (3 changes)3.1PHP >=5.6

4.4PHP >=7.4

5.0PHP >=8.1

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![ed3](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2621801?v=4)](https://github.com/ed3 "ed3 (39 commits)")

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Tags

cakephpcakephp3phpsearch

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