Embed/Implement flarum on my software

JnatasZulske

Hello. First, just want say, what a nice tool flarum is.

I have software, also made in laravel, created to train teams. In this software, I already have a forum area, which doesn't work very well. What I wanted to do is implement the flarum, and make it the forum tool for my software. There are basically two things I need to do:

make a SSO, or use the same session of my software, so the user doenst need to login again.
change the top / menus, so the user does not feel that he left the tool, and entered another one.

where should i start? are there any extensions that help me with this?

JnatasZulske

just to clarify. Embed comments it's not a solution. I want to implement the full version, with categories, etc. But, with a different header (my software header), and maybe use the same session, or sso.

luceos

You can add a link to your forum that redirects first to a controller on your laravel app. It will check for a logged in user, do a php call to the Flarum api on a custom api endpoint on Flarum to create (if not existing) the user and send back a temporary token. You will then redirect the user to a custom endpoint on the forum with that token which will then log the user in.

In flarum you will need to use a local extender to disable the regular log in and registration stuff. You can add a button that redirects the user to the same endpoint (demanding a log in) on the Laravel app.

I have an actual implementation of this somewhere 🤔 I guess https://flagrow.io does this.