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seka19/laravel-forum
====================

A Laravel 4/5 package providing a solid foundation for building discussion forums

5.1.1(5y ago)0851MITPHPPHP >=7.4

Since Mar 24Pushed 5y ago1 watchersCompare

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**Complete documentation is available on [teamteatime.net](https://teamteatime.net/docs/laravel-forum/4.x/introduction.md).**

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 7.4 or above
- Laravel 8 or above (5.3 or above for package version ~4.0)

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

### Step 1: Install the package

[](#step-1-install-the-package)

Install the package via composer:

```
composer require riari/laravel-forum:~3.0

```

If you're using Laravel 5.3 or above, you'll need version ~4.0:

```
composer require riari/laravel-forum:~4.0

```

Then add the service provider to your `config/app.php`:

```
Riari\Forum\ForumServiceProvider::class,
```

Installing the [standard front-end](https://github.com/Riari/laravel-forum-frontend) is recommended:

```
composer require riari/laravel-forum-frontend:~1.0

```

```
Riari\Forum\Frontend\ForumFrontendServiceProvider::class,
```

### Step 2: Publish the package files

[](#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

[](#step-3-update-your-database)

Run your migrations:

`php artisan migrate`

### Additional steps

[](#additional-steps)

#### Server configuration

[](#server-configuration)

If you installed Xdebug before version 2.3, you may need to modify `xdebug.max_nesting_level`. The suggested and new default value from version 2.3 onwards is `256`.

#### Configuration

[](#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

[](#translations)

Laravel Forum currently supports 11 languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Serbian, Portuguese (Brazil) and Swedish. The translation files are published to `resources/lang/vendor/forum/{locale}`. **Please be aware that much of the translation work in 3.0 has been done using Google Translate and probably isn't accurate. Pull requests are welcome to rectify this.**

#### Policies (user permissions)

[](#policies-user-permissions)

Permissions in 3.0 are handled via the [Authorization features](http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/authorization) introduced in Laravel 5.1.11. Refer to [src/Policies](https://github.com/Riari/laravel-forum/tree/3.0/src/Policies) for a full list of policies. To override methods in a policy, just create a class extension for it somewhere in your application and change the corresponding namespace specified in the `forum.integration.policies` config array. **You'll likely want to do this for the ForumPolicy and CategoryPolicy as a minimum to prevent your regular users from managing categories and threads!**

###  Health Score

34

—

LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity9

Limited adoption so far

Community22

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity78

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 67.9% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~32 days

Recently: every ~4 days

Total

67

Last Release

1949d ago

Major Versions

3.1.5 → 4.0.02016-09-25

3.1.7 → 4.0.22017-02-11

3.1.8 → 4.1.22017-12-14

3.1.9 → 4.1.32018-01-20

4.0.x-dev → 5.0.02020-12-26

PHP version history (3 changes)1.0.0PHP >=5.3.0

2.0.0PHP >=5.4.0

4.0.x-devPHP >=7.4

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b086717a3f91192a67a4d5ddad6154ec01a7120cf606d7b5e385c4167e0146b7?d=identicon)[Alexey Sinkevich](/maintainers/Alexey%20Sinkevich)

---

Top Contributors

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