hifone
hifone is a free, open-source, self-hosted forum software based on the laravel php framework.
features this package is currently in (very-)alpha stage, so all of the following features may or may not work yet. however, feel free to post issues and features requests here . we will try to fix and improve the package as fast as we can based on your help!
fast and simple beautiful and responsive roles & permissions markdown & emoj image upload avatars notifications rss feeds localization: language files, time zone and utf-8 support requirements there are a few things that you will need to have set up in order to run gitamin:
a web server: nginx , apache (with mod_rewrite), or lighttpd php 5.6.4+ with the following extensions: mbstring, pdo_mysql mysql or postgresql composer installation by default hifone comes with a .env.example file. you'll need to rename this file to just .env regardless of what environment you're working on.
if you're using sqlite then your .env file should not contain a db_host key. you'll also need to touch ./database/hifone.sqlite and give it the required permissions.
directories within the storage and the bootstrap/cache directories should be writable by your web server or hifone will not run.
step 1: shell git clone https://github.com/hifone/hifonecd hifonecp .env.example .envvi .env # write database settingscomposer install --no-dev -ophp artisan hifone:installchmod -r 777 storagechmod -r 777 bootstrap/cache
step 2: browser now go to http://your_site_domain/ and have fun!
development these extra dependencies are required to develop hifone:
node.js bower gulp npm installbower installgulp
if you're making a lot of changes, you'll find that running gulp watch will really help you out!
demo hifone website .
license hifone is open-sourced software licensed under the mit license