README

With the ForumMan extension, you can easily create a fully featured forum on your TYPO3 website. Users can register, create posts, upload avatars, and interact in discussions. The extension also supports real-time online user tracking and customizable frontend plugins.

Features

• User registration and login with profile management

• Forum categories and threads

• Posts with avatars and user references

• Online user tracking (middleware updates last activity)

• Frontend plugins for forum list, single forum, posts, and “Who is online”

• Ajax updates for online users (plugin cache safe)

• Flexible templates (Fluid) and styling options

• TYPO3 13 LTS & 14 LTS compatible

• Composer & Classic installation supported

Installation

Installation via Composer (recommended)

Install the extension using Composer: composer require lanius/forumman

After installation:

1. Log in to the TYPO3 backend
2. Go to Admin Tools → Extensions
3. Activate the extension Job Manager
4. Add the extension to the Site Settings to enable site-specific configuration
5. Run the database updates via the Upgrade Wizard if required

Setup & Configuration

• Create one or more folders in the page tree where forum posts and user data will be stored.

• Go to Site Settings and add a site set for ForumMan (optional, for plugin configuration).

• Create pages in the page tree where you want to display the forum and add the respective ForumMan plugins:

  Forum list

  Loginbox and settings

  Register form

  Who is online

  and more

• Configure each plugin via the Flexform settings to select the storage folder, templates, and display options.

• Optionally, configure the FAL storage for user avatars in the plugin settings.

Make sure to add the corresponding site set (see screenshot) to your Site Sets configuration.

Afterwards, fill in all fields in the site configuration. Before doing so, create the required pages and folders in the page tree as described below.

Create the pages in the page tree as shown in the screenshot (or similar). On the "Forum" page, add the Forum List plugin. If a sidebar is available, you can place additional plugins there, such as the login form, "Who is online", and others.