Build a site on top of Flarum

diddy

Hello All,

I'm building a full site through Laravel. (News System, Feeds, Award System, Radio, Events)
However instead of building a forum from scratch and having to write user profiles and settings etc I would like to use Flarum.

Thinking about the best way to do this I could think of 2 options.

Add Flarum as a sub-directory of my laravel site (lets call it 'forum', http://laravelsite.com/forum) that way I can use the forum as flarum and still have my side of the site I can build.
Use Flarum as the 'core' of the site if you would like and build extensions for everything I want to do. This could be more time costing and would require me to learn extentions as I couldn't be able to just build a laravel site to do what I want.

Just wondering people's thoughts and how they would do things? Hoping it makes sense, i'm not even sure I've completely got my head around it! xD

Thanks,
Josh

ThomasLewis

diddy For learning, the extensions route could be more fun. If you just want to get it up and running, just install it separately. You could even do that to have something in place while you work on the larger project in a sandbox install.

Arkinn

diddy

I personally would go for the second option, for one of the many reasons being that with Flarum as you say you have a 'core' already there, and just build from that.

th30n3

diddy Use Flarum as the 'core' of the site if you would like and build extensions for everything I want to do. This could be more time costing and would require me to learn extentions as I couldn't be able to just build a laravel site to do what I want.

Similar problem statement. I have followed this approach (2) but only issue I realized later is SEO

nivix

I recently had a similar dilemma @diddy. I've been working on a website for authors and wanted to add a forum without having to reinvent the wheel. So I added a subdomain to my site (talk.domain.com) and installed flarum to the subdomain.

Building the entire site from Flarum felt wrong considering Flarum does not have an official stable release yet, and therefore the underlying APIs are subject to change. If you are going this route for the education, consider that building your site from Laravel is still PHP and the knowledge gained is transferrable to hacking on Flarum.

luceos

Just add oauth2, laravel has passport and install flagrow/passport in Flarum.

clarkwinkelmann

Also right now Flarum uses an outdated Laravel and Mithril codebase. If you keep both codebases separated using a new versions of these will be a lot easier.