Configuration (Laravel Forum 1.x)

Configuration

There are four configuration files in this version; integration, permissions, preferences and routes. Run php artisan config:publish forum to publish them to app/config/packages/forum, where you can make any necessary edits.

See below for overviews of each file.

Integration

• user_model: The namespace of your application’s user model.
• current_user: Closure. Returns the currently authenticated user model. The user is assumed to be unauthenticated if a non-object or null response is returned by this.
• process_alert: Closure. Handles any alert messages to be displayed to the user; change this to send forum alerts through whatever system you use.
• controller: The namespace of the controller to use for all forum routes. The controller specified here should extend \Riari\Forum\Controllers\BaseController to inherit the default methods.

Permissions

This file contains closures for all of the various permission checks in the forum. Each one receives either a category/thread/post object and the current user object. They should all return booleans.

Preferences

• thread: Contains thread settings.
  • cutoff_age: A valid strtotime() string that is used to determine when a thread should be considered “old” and therefore no longer has read/unread status. Defaults to -1 month.
• threads_per_category: The number of threads to display per page in a category view.d
• posts_per_thread: The number of posts to display per page in a thread view.
• pagination_view: The name of the view to use to rendering pagination links.
• cache_lifetime: The duration, in minutes, to cache certain attributes such as thread and post counts. Set to 0 to disable.
• soft_delete: Specifies whether or not to enable soft-deletion of threads and posts.

Routes

• enable: Enable/disable forum routing. Set to false to effectively disable your forum.
• root: The prefix to use for all forum URLs. Defaults to /forum.