Jquery is a project mainly written in PHP, it's free.
CakePHP Jquery Plugin
add line config/bootstrap.php App::import('Core', 'Dispatcher', array('file' => 'your_plugins_path'.DS.'jquery'.DS.'dispatcher.php'));
add line views/layouts/default.ctp echo $javascript->link('/jquery/js/jquery-1.3.2.min'); echo $javascript->link('/jquery/js/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min'); echo $html->css('/jquery/css/smoothness/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom');