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KChat

PHP Based Chat Application.

Requirements

• Web Server Apache or Nginx
• MySQL 5.7
• PHP version >= 8.0
  • Required extensions :
    • ctype
    • curl
    • dom
    • fileinfo
    • filter
    • hash
    • json
    • libxml
    • mbstring
    • openssl
    • pcre
    • phar
    • session
    • tokenizer
    • xml
    • xmlwriter

Manual installation

Downlaod Kchat Files

Using git

git clone https://github.com/php-kchat/kchat.git

Install Composer

composer install

OR

Download Zip and Extract to your Web Directory

Install Composer

composer install

OR

Using with Composer

composer create-project php-kchat/kchat

Run following command to complete installation

Create .env if not exist.

cp .env.example .env

Configure database details in .env

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=laravel
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

Generate APP_KEY in the .env file:

php artisan key:generate

Create tables:

php artisan migrate

Give a Writable Permission on

• storage/*
• bootstrap/cache/*
• public/images/*

Sign-in your first user and login

Maintainers

• Ganesh Kandu
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