Natika Forum 
Simple PHP Forum system for developers.
Installation
Via Composer
composer create-project asika/natika natika *
cd natika/After composer installed, Natika will help you set some basic settings to enable site and create admin user.
Via Git
If you want to use git to keep Natika update to newest version, you can use git to install Natika.
git clone [email protected]:asika32764/natika.git
cd natika/
composer installThen copy etc/secret.dist.yml to etc/secret.yml and open it to fill database account.
Other Commands
If you want to test with fake data, you can add seeders by
php natika migration reset --seedCreate a new admin user
php natika create-userGetting Started
Use your root user to login Natika. You can create category by click New Category button.
Fill category information, icon uses Font Awesome classes.
If you want to use image as category icon, you must go to admin.
Create & edit topics.
Admin
Go to http://{your.site}/admin, and login with admin account.
Category Edit
Article Edit
Article will display on frontend top menu. If you fill the URL input, menu item will be an external link.
You can drag & drop images to upload.
Config
Open etc/secret.yml, there are some basic settings which you can change.
Site Metadata
natika:
site_name: Natika
metadata:
description:
'og:description':
'og:image':
banner:
default: # Banner title
theme: # Your custom themeMail Settings
mail:
from:
email: [email protected]
name: Natika Forum
transport: smtp # smtp / sendmail or php
# SMTP setting
host: mailtrap.io
username:
password:
security: tls
port: 2525Cloud Image Storage
unidev:
image:
storage: s3 # s3 or imgur
# Auto resize image
resize:
enabled: true
width: 1200
height: 1200
crop: false
quality: 85
# API information
amazon:
key:
secret:
bucket:
subfolder:
endpoint: # Keep empty
region: # Keep empty
imgur:
key:
secret:Customize Theme
Social Login
Hide Source Files
If you want to create a /public folder to hide all source files. See Hide Source Files
Development
Natika based on these packages:
Natika provides package and event system to help develops create their plugins, but we need more test to release this feature, so there are no documentation about plugins currently, please wait for future inforamtion.