AssociationsDebugger is a plugin that is made for debugging associations. The point of this plugin is to quickly show different associations of your CakePHP application without you needing to browse through the model files.

CakePHP 3.x version can be found here CakePHP 4.x version can be found here

• CakePHP 5.x
• PHP 8.1 >

cd to the root of your app folder (where the composer.json file is) and run the following command:

composer require --dev zunnu/associations-debugger

Then load the plugin by using CakePHP's console. This plugin is not needed in production environment, so it's recommended to be loaded using:

./bin/cake plugin load AssociationsDebugger --only-debug

To see the Associations panel in DebugKit this plugin needs to be loaded before DebugKit

You can see the tree by going to http:https://app-address/associations-debugger Here you can filter by association type and model.

This same tree can be also viewed in the CakePHP debugKit.

Association structure is explained here:

Licensed under The MIT License.