Create a Forum Using Chatter in Laravel

This topic is creating a forum in Laravel 5.8 using Chatter, I will show you how easy it is to create your own Laravel Forum using the Chatter Package

In this post, we create a Laravel forum using Chatter package. Chatter package provides us with a very easy function to create a forum for Laravel. In this application, we will use Laravel 5.7.

We create the final Laravel 5.7 forum application as below.

Step:1 Create a new Laravel application

First, we need to create a  new Laravel project to create a following this command.

laravel new chatter

Step: 2 Connect with Database 

After creating a project we connect our application with database. Here we using new Laravel project so make sure to install the default user authentication provided with Laravel. 

php artisan make:auth

Step: 3 Install Package

Install Chatter package into your Laravel application using the following command.

composer require "devdojo/chatter=0.2.*"

Step: 4 Update the service provider

Add the service provider to your config/app.php provider’s array:

DevDojo\Chatter\ChatterServiceProvider::class,

Step: 5 Publish the Vendor

Publish the Vendor using the following command.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="DevDojo\Chatter\ChatterServiceProvider"

After that, we need to be published a few new files to our application we need to reload them with the following command.

composer dump-autoload

Step: 6 Run Your migrations

You can see the many files in the migrations folder.

Now migrate all files using this command.

php artisan migrate

Step:7 Seed Your Database

We need some data to test our Laravel forum application so we will use the following command to seed some little data.

php artisan db:seed --class=ChatterTableSeeder

Step:8 Add yield in Master page

Add yield into master page app.blade.php file include a header and footer yield. Inside the head of your app.blade.php add the following.

Add style into the head.

@yield('css')

And add js yield at the bottom of the body.

@yield('js')

Now, finally, we complete this tutorial Create a Forum in Laravel 5.8 Using Chatter to see our new Laravel forum application visit your //localhost:8000/forums/ and you should see your new forum in front of you!