Hifone

Hifone is a free, open-source, self-hosted forum software based on the Laravel PHP Framework.

Features

• 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

git clone https://github.com/Hifone/Hifone
cd Hifone
composer install --no-dev -o
cp .env.example .env
php artisan migrate
php artisan key:generate
php artisan config:cache

Once cloned to your local machine, you'll need some demo data! Simply run php artisan hifone:seed to get the demo installation on the go.

Development

These extra dependencies are required to develop Hifone:

• Node.js
• Bower
• Gulp

npm install
bower install
gulp

If you're making a lot of changes, you'll find that running gulp watch will really help you out!

Demo

Hifone website.