Forum

This is an open source forum that was built and maintained at Laracasts.com.

Installation

Step 1

To run this project, you must hav PHP 7 installed as a prerequisite.

Begin by cloning this repository to your machine, and installing all Composer dependencies.

git clone https://github.com/Cellane/forum
cd forum && composer install
php artisan key:generate
cp .env.example .env

Step 2

Next, create a new database and reference its name and username/password within the project’s .env file. In the example below, we’ve named the database forum.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=forum
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

Then, migrate your database to create the required tables.

php artisan migrate

Step 3

Until an administration portal is available, manually insert any number of “channels” (think of these as forum categories) into the channels table in your database.

Once finished, clear your server cache, and you’re all set to go!

php artisan cache:clear

Step 4

Use your forum! Visit http://forum.dev/threads to create a new account and publish your first thread.