Introduction

Laravel open source forum to manage online communities.

About

A powerful Open Source Business Forum that can be installed on your server.Open source Laravel Forum, check Wiki

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Starting

These instructions will allow you to get a copy of the project running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Setup

• PHP 8.3 >=
• PostgreSQL (Or MySQL)
• Composer

Additional details on dependencies

Assuming you're running Ubuntu, and then install all dependencies from the following list:

sudo apt-get install php8.3 php8.3-pgsql php8.3-mysql php8.3-intl php8.3-json php8.3-mbstring

Installation

The following steps are meant to be used on a development server.

• Clone Project

$ git clone https://github.com/joncastdev/forum-laravel.git

• Pull Project Dev Branch

$ git pull dev

• Navigate to the root of the Laravel project

$ cd forum-laravel

• Setup vendor libraries

$ composer install

• Copy .env.example config and generate Key project

$ cp .env.example .env

$ php artisan migrate:fresh --seed

$ php artisan storage:link

$ php artisan key:generate

• Run server

$ php artisan serve

Access:

_Admin: admin@gmail.com _Pass: Test1234

_User: free@gmail.com _Pass: Test1234

_User: vip@gmail.com _Pass: Test1234

Technologies 🛠️

• Laravel 13
• Email Tool

Author ✒️

• Jonathan Castro - Software Engineer - joncastdev

Support

joncastdev@gmail.com

• If you would like a business forum with many extra features, please contact us with your requirements and budget. Thank you.

Donations

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