Installation (Laravel Forum 6.x)
Installation
Versions
| Laravel version | Package version | PHP version |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | ^6.0 | ^8.2 |
| 10 | ^5.5 | ^8.1 |
Please note that older package versions not listed above are no longer maintained or supported.
See the support policy in the Laravel docs for more information about Laravel release versions, their supported PHP versions, and how long they receive bug & security fixes.
Step 1: Install the package
Install the package via composer:
composer require riari/laravel-forum:^6.0
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 application’s bootstrap/providers.php file:
TeamTeaTime\Forum\ForumServiceProvider::class,
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
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
After completing this step, you can 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’ button displayed on the forum index (/forum).
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 for details.
Additional steps
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_model config option according to the location of your user model. By default, it matches the default namespace for the user model in Laravel 11. Additionally, you may need to modify the forum.integration.user_name option; this specifies which attribute on the user model should be used as a display name in the forum views.
Policies
You will likely wish to modify the default policies to integrate them with whatever permission system you may be using; see Policies for further details.
Translations
Laravel Forum 5 currently supports 13 languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Romanian, Russian, Thai, Turkish, Serbian, Portuguese (Brazil) and Swedish. The translation files are published to resources/lang/vendor/forum/{locale}.
Some new language strings have been introduced in 6.0 but not yet translated; PRs to translate these would be greatly appreciated.