Installation (Laravel Forum 3.x)

Installation

Requirements

• PHP 5.4 or above
• Laravel 5.1 or 5.2 (see version 4 for Laravel 5.3 and above)

Step 1: Install the package

Install the package via composer:

composer require riari/laravel-forum:~3.0

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

Riari\Forum\ForumServiceProvider::class,

Installing the front-end is recommended.

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

Assuming this succeeds, you can now define your forum categories in the forum_categories table, or authenticate with a user that has the createCategories ability (granted to all users by default) and use the ‘Create category’ panel displayed on the forum index (/forum).