Complete documentation is available on teamteatime.net.

Installation

Requires Laravel 6+ and PHP 7.4+.

Step 1: Install the package

Install the package via composer:

composer require riari/laravel-forum:~5.0

Package Discovery should take care of registering the service provider automatically, but if you need to do so manually, add the service provider to your config/app.php:

TeamTeaTime\Forum\ForumServiceProvider::class,

Step 2: Publish the package files

Run the vendor:publish command to publish the package config, translations and migrations to your app's directories:

php artisan vendor:publish

Step 3: Update your database

Run your migrations:

php artisan migrate

Additional steps

Configuration

Several configuration files are published to your application's config directory, each prefixed with forum.. Refer to these for a variety of options for changing the behaviour of the forum and how it integrates with key parts of your application code.

You may need to modify the forum.integration.user_name config option according to your user model. This specifies which attribute on the user model should be used as a display name in the forum views.

Translations

Laravel Forum currently supports 14 languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Romanian, Russian, Thai, Turkish, Serbian, Portuguese (Brazil), Swedish, and Chinese. The translation files are published to resources/lang/vendor/forum/{locale}. Some new language strings have been introduced in 5.0 but not yet translated; PRs to translate these would be greatly appreciated.

Development

If you wish to contribute, an easy way to set up the package for local development is Team-Tea-Time/laravel-studio, which is set up to load a local working copy of this repository (see the readme for usage details).

Running tests

Bring up the MySQL service:

docker-compose up -d mysql

Install Composer dependencies:

docker-compose run --rm composer install

Run the phpunit container to execute tests:

docker-compose run --rm phpunit

Seeding

The package tables can be seeded with sample categories, threads, posts, and a user via forum:seed:

docker-compose exec php-fpm php artisan forum:seed