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Chatter - A Laravel Forum package

Installation

Quick Note: If this is a new project, make sure to install the default user authentication provided with Laravel. php artisan make:auth

  1. Include the package in your project

  2. Publish the Vendor Assets files by running:

  3. Now that we have published a few new files to our application we need to reload them with the following command:

  4. Run Your migrations:

    Quick tip: Make sure that you've created a database and added your database credentials in your .env file.

  5. Lastly, run the seed files to seed your database with a little data:

  6. Inside of your master.blade.php file include a header and footer yield. Inside the head of your master or app.blade.php add the following:

    Then, right above the </body> tag of your master file add the following:

Now, visit your site.com/forums and you should see your new forum in front of you!

Upgrading

Make sure that your composer.json file is requiring the latest version of chatter:

Then you'll run:

Next, you may want to re-publish the chatter assets, chatter config, and the chatter migrations by running the following:

Next to make sure you have the latest database schema run:

And you'll be up-to-date with the latest version :)

Customization

CUSTOM CSS

If you want to add additional style changes you can simply add another stylesheet at the end of your @stack('css') statement in the head of your master file. In order to only load this file when a user is accessing your forums you can include your stylesheet in the packages template files or wrap it in the following if statement:

In addition to that you can also import the SCSS from the package directly into your own build.

SEO FRIENDLY PAGE TITLES

Since the forum uses your master layout file, you will need to include the necessary code in order to display an SEO friendly title for your page. The following code will need to be added to the <head> of your master file:

OVERRIDING VIEWS

In order to override Chatter's built in views, simply create a chatter folder in your vendor views folder, i.e. ROOT/resources/views/vendor/chatter. Then simply drop in the Chatter view files you would like to override.

Laravel Events for the forum

This package provides a number of events allowing you to respond to user actions as they happen:

Event Available properties Description
ChatterBeforeNewDiscussion This event is fired before a discussion is validated and created
ChatterAfterNewDiscussion Discussion $discussion, Post $post This event is fired after a discussion has been validated and created
ChatterBeforeNewResponse Discussion $discussion This event is fired before a response is validated and created
ChatterAfterNewResponse Discussion $discussion, Post $post This event is fired after a response is validated and created
ChatterCategorySaved Category $category This event is fired after a Category has been updated or created

Listening for Events

To register your listeners for these events, follow the Laravel documentation for registering events and listeners. For example, to register a listener for the "before new discussion" event, add the following to your EventServiceProvider:

where App\Listeners\HandleNewDiscussion is a class in your application which handles the event when it's fired.

You can access the object that triggered the event in your listener with

and

All versions of chatter with dependencies

PHP Build Version
Package Version
Requires illuminate/support Version ^6.0|^7.0|^8.0
illuminate/routing Version ^6.0|^7.0|^8.0
illuminate/http Version ^6.0|^7.0|^8.0
illuminate/bus Version ^6.0|^7.0|^8.0
illuminate/mail Version ^6.0|^7.0|^8.0
illuminate/queue Version ^6.0|^7.0|^8.0
illuminate/cache Version 6.0|^7.0|^8.0
graham-campbell/markdown Version ^13.1
doctrine/dbal Version ^2.6|^3.0
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