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wyang14/chatter
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A simple forum package for your laravel app based on devdojo/chatter

0.3.5(8y ago)043PHP

Since Aug 18Pushed 8y ago1 watchersCompare

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### Installation

[](#installation)

Quick Note: If this is a new project, make sure to install the default user authentication provided with Laravel. `php artisan make:auth`

1. Include the package in your project

    ```
    composer require "wyang14/chatter=0.3.*"

    ```
2. Add the service provider to your `config/app.php` providers array:

    **If you're installing on Laravel 5.5+ skip this step**

    ```
    Wyang14\Chatter\ChatterServiceProvider::class,

    ```
3. Publish the Vendor Assets files by running:

    ```
    php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Wyang14\Chatter\ChatterServiceProvider"

    ```
4. Now that we have published a few new files to our application we need to reload them with the following command:

    ```
    composer dump-autoload

    ```
5. Run Your migrations:

    ```
    php artisan migrate

    ```

    Quick tip: Make sure that you've created a database and added your database credentials in your `.env` file.
6. Lastly, run the seed files to seed your database with a little data:

    ```
    php artisan db:seed --class=ChatterTableSeeder

    ```
7. Inside of your master.blade.php file include a header and footer yield. Inside the head of your master or app.blade.php add the following:

    ```
    @yield('css')

    ```

    Then, right above the `` tag of your master file add the following:

    ```
    @yield('js')

    ```

Now, visit your site.com/forums and you should see your new forum in front of you!

### Upgrading

[](#upgrading)

Make sure that your composer.json file is requiring the latest version of chatter:

```
"wyang14/chatter": "0.3.*"

```

Then you'll run:

```
composer update

```

Next, you may want to re-publish the chatter assets, chatter config, and the chatter migrations by running the following:

```
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=chatter_assets --force
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=chatter_config --force
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=chatter_migrations --force

```

Next to make sure you have the latest database schema run:

```
php artisan migrate

```

And you'll be up-to-date with the latest version :)

### Markdown editor

[](#markdown-editor)

If you are going to make use of the markdown editor instead of tinymce you will need to change that in your config/chatter.php:

```
'editor' => 'simplemde',

```

In order to properly display the posts you will need to include the `graham-campbell/markdown` library for Laravel:

```
composer require graham-campbell/markdown

```

### Trumbowyg editor

[](#trumbowyg-editor)

If you are going to use Trumbowyg as your editor of choice you will need to change that in your config/chatter.php:

```
'editor' => 'trumbowyg',

```

Trumbowyg requires jQuery >= 1.8 to be included.

When you published the vendor assets you added a new file inside of your `config` folder which is called `config/chatter.php`. This file contains a bunch of configuration you can use to configure your forums

### Customization

[](#customization)

*CUSTOM CSS*

If you want to add additional style changes you can simply add another stylesheet at the end of your `@yield('css')` statement in the head of your master file. In order to only load this file when a user is accessing your forums you can include your stylesheet in the following `if` statement:

```
@if(Request::is( Config::get('chatter.routes.home') ) || Request::is( Config::get('chatter.routes.home') . '/*' ))

@endif

```

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 59% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community17

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 50.5% 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 ~13 days

Recently: every ~0 days

Total

39

Last Release

3041d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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