Actually, Prometheus has nothing to do with these plugins, but hell, making them took the yuckiness of the movie out of my head. I'm still pissed though.

Feedback plugin

Cake 2.x is so much better than the previous versions, and this plugin is the proof. Not because it's something fantastically amazing (it is), but because it's was actually simple to create.

So what is Feedback plugin? It enables you to plug in comments and rating stars into your existing applications with virtually no work at all, and more importantly, with virtually no modifications to your app.

How easy is it? This easy:

// step 1: model
class Post extends AppModel
{
    public $actsAs = array('Feedback.Commentable');
}

// step 2: controller
class PostsController extends AppController
{
    public $components = array
        (
            'Feedback.Comments' => array
            (
                'on' => array
                (
                    'admin_view',
                    'view'
                )
            )
        );
}

// step 3: view
echo $this->Comments->display_for($post);

It's pretty much the same for star ratings as well.

While commenting, users have the "remember my info" option so they don't have to enter it again. Also, comments also have gravatar integrated (using Goodies). For more info and instructions, view the README (lots of info there).

The only major issue at the moment is the lack of spam filter for comments, which will be solved some day by:

Naive Bayes Classifier plugin

So yes, this plugin may not be as interesting to many of you out there, but I've decided to publish it anyway. The plugin is obviously a Naive Bayes classifier.

I'm hoping to develop a pure CakePHP anti-spam plugin some day, and this plugin will certainly be a part of it. However, you don't have to use it for spam, because it's not spam-specific. You can use it for whatever your classification needs are, because it was written as a general classifier.

Again, for more info and instructions, see the README.