Laravel and Flarum

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Some input here? @Toby

MartinTale

Reason why I was asking about this is because I saw you're going to make it available as Wordpress plugin so it would only make sense to be available for custom Laravel projects.

luceos

You can simply install flarum in a subdirectory of your project.

If you want interaction you can use Eloquent to connect to the Flarum database from your Laravel project.
If you want more, you have to understand the frontend of Flarum, which has no relation to Laravel in any way. The backend of Flarum consists of Illuminate packages, so not Laravel in total. So that means you'd have to understand both the backend and the frontend of Flarum to get some tighter connection working.

I have attempted to bridge from Laravel to Flarum, but lack of time have ensured there is no proof of concept yet.

Franz

Given that we use many of Laravel's components in Flarum, we had planned to build a bridge. It shouldn't be too hard. But, it hasn't happened yet. :-/

bgies

I have a need to integrate Flarum with a Laravel 5.2 website... we had planned to put Flarum in a separate directory, as a subdomain of the main site, but it could also be a subdirectory of the main site and then just use the main domain. I can't think of any advantages either way that might be critical... anyone else know any?

I'd like to revive this thread and talk out the basic design if possible. Happy to contribute code if I get the design right ?

Obviously the easiest would be to keep sessions in the database, but it wouldn't be difficult to have file based sessions. I haven't noticed how Flarum stores it's sessions yet, but I assume it can be changed?

luceos

My approach was to integrate Flarum closely in Laravel, but I encountered several issues by then of which one PR fix was reversed because it broke Flarum. Since then I haven't found the time to work on it, due to the responsibility I had to refactor the Extension system. I should have time to pick this up again in the near future.

Please do join gitter at https://gitter.im/flarum/developers or talk to me on private there if you want to talk in detail about this bgies I'd love to make this happen any time soon.

illuminate

I would like to see that integration as I love this product, and also I already have a laravel setup and bunch of users registered. It would be lovely to see a kind of bridge between user models.

Thank you very much.

bgies

@luceos Our website is not even in testing yet, so I have time. I'm sure you know much more than I do about what needs to be done, so it's probably best for me to wait for you to design it. BUT... if you need some coding done I can help out. It's something that we will definitely want to have

bgies

Most features in Flarum are written as an extension. Is registration/login written so we can drop another extension in?

jordanjay29

bgies It's been discussed.

bgies

Haha.. discussed but not implemented ? ... well, the twitter, gibhub and facebook stuff is an extension, so maybe that gives me a starting point ?

jordanjay29

bgies We haven't hit Beta 6 yet, it's marked as part of that milestone. But absolutely, give it a whirl and submit a PR.

fungku

I'd also like to see how I could use it with other Laravel apps/packages, like Flashtag CMS