You can install this plugin into your CakePHP application using composer.

The recommended way to install composer packages is:

composer require arodu/cakelte

• FriendsOfCake/bootstrap-ui, transparently use Bootstrap 4 with CakePHP 4.
• AdminLTE 3.0.5, bootstrap 4 admin theme.

You can load the plugin using the shell command:

bin/cake plugin load CakeLte

Or you can manually add the loading statement in the src/Application.php file of your application:

public function bootstrap(){
    parent::bootstrap();
    $this->addPlugin('CakeLte');
}

use trait into src/View/AppView.php (Recomended)

namespace App\View;

use Cake\View\View;
use CakeLte\View\CakeLteTrait;

class AppView extends View{
  use CakeLteTrait;

  public $layout = 'CakeLte.default';

  public function initialize(): void{
      parent::initialize();
      $this->initializeCakeLte($options = []);
      //...
  }
}

or you can extends from CakeLteView

namespace App\View;

use Cake\View\View;
use CakeLte\View\CakeLteView;

class AppView extends CakeLteView{

  public function initialize(): void{
    parent::initialize();
    //...
  }
}

Inpunt options:

  //initializeCakeLte() \$options
  [
    'appName' => 'Cake<b>LTE</b>', // [string] default='Cake<b>LTE</b>'
    'appLogo' => 'CakeLte.cake.icon.png', // [string] default='CakeLte.cake.icon.png'
  ];

Options layouts

• CakeLte.default
• CakeLte.login
• CakeLte.top-nav

bin/cake bake all [command] -t CakeLte

bin/cake bake template [command] -t CakeLte login

Replace the files elements

• Layouts
  • src/templates/layout/default.php
  • src/templates/layout/login.php
  • src/templates/layout/top-nav.php
• Content info
  • src/templates/element/content/breadcrumb.php
  • src/templates/element/content/header.php
• Header navbar
  • src/templates/element/header/main.php
  • src/templates/element/header/menu.php
  • src/templates/element/header/messages.php
  • src/templates/element/header/notifications.php
  • src/templates/element/header/search.php
• Footer
  • src/templates/element/footer/main.php
• Left sidebar
  • src/templates/element/sidebar/main.php
  • src/templates/element/sidebar/menu.php
  • src/templates/element/sidebar/user.php
• Right sidebar
  • src/templates/element/aside/main.php

Link to debug

echo $this->Html->link(__('CakeLTE debug page'), '/cake_lte/debug' );

// {your-url}/cake_lte/debug