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Useful component that provides a wrapper for PayPal's Direct Payment API, allowing any cake based application to accept payments via Direct Payment (processing credit cards and payments without leaving your website) and Express Checkout (allowing users to use their PayPal account to pay)

Yahoo! developer network provides a RSS based API to access weather information for locations all around the world. The component has a method named get_weather($locationCode,$degreeUnit) that retrieves the weather information for the given location code and outputs the data in an easy to use array. Please read "http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/" for more information about the location code and degree unit. I will provide a tutorial as soon as possible.

Simple component for sending SMS text messages to mobile devices using the Clickatell API (They provide free test accounts).

Gallery2 is a Media Manager and can be embedded in other applications like CMS. Gallery2 also has an API that we can use to embed Gallery into our Web Apps. Below is only a sample of what can be done. If you find it interesting enough, please contribute your improvements and suggestions as well as any code. I have only been working with CakePHP for little over two weeks, so not saying this is the best way. My first post so go easy :)

A couple of weeks ago, I was building an event management system which required that people be able to search events near them. I found several existing solutions, but none that I could integrate as easily as a proper Cake extension.