Suggestions after installation

Prosperous

Hi guys, just a quick one from me at this stage. I've literally just finished installing Flarum onto my server via Composer. The process was pretty fluid once I got the hang of what to do. There were a few server-side things I had to adjust and what not but I'm happy to say I now have a fully functional Flarum forum. It's so damn nice!

The only question I have at the moment is the following text once the installation was completed in Terminal on my iMac.

symfony/translation suggests installing symfony/config ()
s9e/text-formatter suggests installing ext-intl (Allows international URLs to be accepted by the URL filter)
s9e/text-formatter suggests installing ext-xsl (Enables the XSLT renderer)
monolog/monolog suggests installing graylog2/gelf-php (Allow sending log messages to a GrayLog2 server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing raven/raven (Allow sending log messages to a Sentry server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing doctrine/couchdb (Allow sending log messages to a CouchDB server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing ruflin/elastica (Allow sending log messages to an Elastic Search server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing videlalvaro/php-amqplib (Allow sending log messages to an AMQP server using php-amqplib)
monolog/monolog suggests installing ext-amqp (Allow sending log messages to an AMQP server (1.0+ required))
monolog/monolog suggests installing ext-mongo (Allow sending log messages to a MongoDB server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing aws/aws-sdk-php (Allow sending log messages to AWS services like DynamoDB)
monolog/monolog suggests installing rollbar/rollbar (Allow sending log messages to Rollbar)
monolog/monolog suggests installing php-console/php-console (Allow sending log messages to Google Chrome)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-eventable-filesystem (Allows you to use EventableFilesystem)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-rackspace (Allows you to use Rackspace Cloud Files)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-copy (Allows you to use Copy.com storage)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-azure (Allows you to use Windows Azure Blob storage)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-webdav (Allows you to use WebDAV storage)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-aws-s3-v2 (Allows you to use S3 storage with AWS SDK v2)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-aws-s3-v3 (Allows you to use S3 storage with AWS SDK v3)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-dropbox (Allows you to use Dropbox storage)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-cached-adapter (Flysystem adapter decorator for metadata caching)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-sftp (Allows you to use SFTP server storage via phpseclib)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-ziparchive (Allows you to use ZipArchive adapter)
intervention/image suggests installing ext-imagick (to use Imagick based image processing.)
intervention/image suggests installing intervention/imagecache (Caching extension for the Intervention Image library)
illuminate/support suggests installing jeremeamia/superclosure (Required to be able to serialize closures (~2.0).)
illuminate/support suggests installing paragonie/random_compat (Provides a compatible interface like PHP7's random_bytes() in PHP 5 projects (~1.1).)
illuminate/support suggests installing symfony/var-dumper (Improves the dd function (2.7.*).)
illuminate/filesystem suggests installing league/flysystem-aws-s3-v3 (Required to use the Flysystem S3 driver (~1.0).)
illuminate/filesystem suggests installing league/flysystem-rackspace (Required to use the Flysystem Rackspace driver (~1.0).)
illuminate/mail suggests installing aws/aws-sdk-php (Required to use the SES mail driver (~3.0).)
illuminate/database suggests installing fzaninotto/faker (Required to use the eloquent factory builder (~1.4).)
illuminate/database suggests installing illuminate/console (Required to use the database commands (5.1.*).)
illuminate/database suggests installing illuminate/pagination (Required to paginate the result set (5.1.*).)
illuminate/cache suggests installing illuminate/redis (Required to use the redis cache driver (5.1.*).)
symfony/event-dispatcher suggests installing symfony/dependency-injection ()
symfony/event-dispatcher suggests installing symfony/http-kernel ()
Writing lock file
Generating autoload files

What does it mean? Are they specifically suggestions made by Flarum or is it best practice to implement them?

I appreciate all the great work you're doing @Toby and @Franz, as well as the rest of the staff involved. Any and all help would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

luceos

These are optional package, but suggest for certain features to work. Under normal circumstances you can simply ignore that whole list.

Dakoom

I had the same messages! You can ignore them. Oh, don't ask me which features you'll be missing because I have no idea, really. LOL

Prosperous

luceos Thanks for the answer. Where are these packages installed from and what sort of features will they provide?

luceos

Prosperous Each line gives the reason for suggesting the package, for instance:

league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-dropbox (Allows you to use Dropbox storage)

Flarum (and Laravel) use the filesystem package from the php league called flysystem. This package is one of the most acclaimed packages of this collaborative group. The package league/flysystem-dropbox allows you to use Dropbox for file download, upload etc..

However the question is.. does the application expect this can be used. For instance, adding this dropbox adapter for flysystem won't give you the option to upload files to dropbox magically, it requires some coding and configuring from the application side of things.

Prosperous

I didn't even notice that!

Are there any in the list that you would recommend I get installed for my Flarum installation? And ones that you think are unnecessary? I've got a VPS so storage wouldn't be a problem at this stage I guess.

Franz

No, using them would still require changing the code a little bit. If any, we'll make this kind of configuration possible through extensions - those will also bring along the needed dependencies.

Prosperous

Easy answer then. Thanks @Franz. Seems like everything is working exactly as it should be though. The stable release will bring Flarum to stardom amongst the forum world.

Dakoom

Thank you guys for the explanation. I needed it too.