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selectandstart/laravel-forum
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A Laravel package providing a solid foundation for building discussion forums

6.x-dev(8mo ago)17[5 PRs](https://github.com/SelectandStart/laravel-forum/pulls)MITPHPPHP ^8.4CI passing

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[![Laravel Forum Logo](./logo.png)](./logo.png)

**Complete documentation is available on [teamteatime.net](https://www.teamteatime.net/).**

Versions
--------

[](#versions)

**Laravel version****Package version****PHP version**12^6.x-dev^8.211^6.0^8.210^5.5^8.1Please note that older package versions not listed above are no longer maintained or supported.

See the [support policy in the Laravel docs](https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/releases#support-policy) for more information about Laravel release versions, their supported PHP versions, and how long they receive bug & security fixes.

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

[](#installation)

### Step 1: Install the package

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

Install the package via composer:

```
composer require selectandstart/laravel-forum:6.x-dev

```

[Package Discovery](https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/packages#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 `bootstrap/providers.php`:

```
TeamTeaTime\Forum\ForumServiceProvider::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`

### Step 4: Install a UI preset

[](#step-4-install-a-ui-preset)

A `forum:preset-install {name}` command is available for installing UI presets. Run `forum:preset-list` to see a list of available presets. You must install one of these to publish the corresponding views to your application. For example:

`php artisan forum:preset-install livewire-tailwind`

Note

By default, the `livewire-tailwind` preset is set as the active one in the `forum.frontend.preset` config value. This preset requires Livewire and a few other dependencies. Refer to [UI Presets](https://www.teamteatime.net/docs/laravel-forum/6.x/front-end/ui-presets) for details.

### Additional steps

[](#additional-steps)

#### Configuration

[](#configuration)

Several configuration files are published to `config/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.

Note

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 15 languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Romanian, Russian, Thai, Turkish, Serbian, Portuguese (Brazil), Swedish, Chinese, and Indonesian. The translation files are published to `resources/lang/vendor/forum/{locale}`.

Note

Some new language strings have been introduced in version 6 but not yet translated; PRs to translate these would be greatly appreciated.

Development
-----------

[](#development)

If you wish to contribute, an easy way to set up the package for local development is [Team-Tea-Time/laravel-studio](https://github.com/Team-Tea-Time/laravel-studio), which is set up to load a local working copy of this repository (see the [readme](https://github.com/Team-Tea-Time/laravel-studio/blob/11.x/readme.md#usage) for usage details).

### Running tests

[](#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

[](#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
```

###  Health Score

36

—

LowBetter than 82% of packages

Maintenance72

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community20

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity43

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 63% 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

248d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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