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<span class="mb-4">Updated on October 15, 2023, Created by <a href="https://wstacks.com">wStacks</a> ,
Version: V1.0.0
</span><br><br>
<div class="section-title">
<h2 class="intro-title">project Introduction</h2>
<h4 id="intro-des">Short description</h4>
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<p>ProForum, developed on the robust Laravel 10 framework, serves as a versatile platform for professionals. It ingeniously integrates knowledge exchange, skillful candidate recruitment, and networking capabilities. With its adaptability across diverse sectors of interest, ProForum stands as an invaluable tool for a wide array of industries. The platform boasts robust security measures and a clean, intuitive design, ensuring a safe and user-friendly experience for all.
</p>
<p>Beyond its seamless integration of knowledge-sharing and skilled candidate recruitment, it introduces a unique credits system and supports over 10 payment gateways. What sets ProForum apart is its user-friendly installation process that requires no coding knowledge. This platform proves invaluable across various industries, providing a secure and seamless experience for all users. With stringent security features and a sleek interface, ProForum sets a new standard in professional forums and job platforms.</p>
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<h2 class="intro-title mb-5">Main Features</h2>
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<h4 id="intro-des">Feature Packed</h4>
<p>This fully featured script is a comprehensive software solution that is ready to go with all the
necessary components,
functions, and capabilities included. It has been developed and tested to ensure high standards of
quality, performance,
and reliability.</p>
</div>
<div class="highlight-fe">
<h4 id="intro-des">User Friendly</h4>
<p>The script is easily operable and customizable. Code is well documented.</p>
</div>
<div class="highlight-fe">
<h4 id="intro-des">Payment Gateways </h4>
<p>This script has popular payment gatways integrated like paypal, stripe, coinpayments, paystack, paytm,
perfectmoney
etc. </p>
</div>
<div class="highlight-fe">
<h4 id="intro-des">International </h4>
<p>This script has multi-language features to support all languages. Admin can easily add a new language
with few clicks.</p>
</div>
<div class="highlight-fe">
<h4 id="intro-des">SEO </h4>
<p>Your site will be easily discoverable by any web crawlers like Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. No need
to put any extra cost on search engine optimization.</p>
</div>
<div class="highlight-fe">
<h4 id="intro-des">Reliable & Secure</h4>
<p>This script come with Google Recaptcha.</p>
</div>
<div class="highlight-fe">
<h4 id="intro-des">Live Chat</h4>
<p>Visitors/Customers contact with you in real time through live chat system.</p>
</div>
</div>
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<h2 class="intro-title mb-5">Built With </h2>
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<h4 id="intro-des">Back end</h4>
<ul class="tech_list">
<li>PHP 8.1</li>
<li>laravel 10.X.X</li>
<li>MySQL 5.7</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h4 id="intro-des">Front end</h4>
<ul class="tech_list">
<li>HTML 5</li>
<li>CSS 3</li>
<li>Bootstrap 5</li>
<li>jQuery 3.7.1</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h2 class="intro-title mb-5">Server Requirements </h2>
<p>The script is built on Laravel 10, so it requires to have all the pre-requisites of Laravel 10.</p>
<ul class="pre_require">
<li>PHP >= 8.1</li>
<li>MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10+</li>
<li>BCMath PHP Extension</li>
<li>Ctype PHP Extension</li>
<li>cURL PHP Extension >= 7.67</li>
<li>DOM PHP Extension</li>
<li>Fileinfo PHP Extension</li>
<li>JSON PHP Extension</li>
<li>Mbstring PHP Extension</li>
<li>OpenSSL PHP Extension</li>
<li>PCRE PHP Extension</li>
<li>PDO PHP Extension</li>
<li>Tokenizer PHP Extension</li>
<li>XML PHP Extension</li>
<li>GD Image Library</li>
<li>Zip Archive Extension</li>
<li>MySQL Native Driver Support</li>
<li>allow_url_fopen enabled</li>
</ul>
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<h2 class="intro-title mb-5">Installation </h2>
<p>Please read through the whole installation section carefully. You can install this application with few
easy steps.</p>
<p><strong>All
steps are demonstrated part by part below.</strong></p>
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<h4 id="intro-des">Upload the file </h4>
<p>Upload The Zip File To The Server You Have Downloaded From Downlod After Purchase.</p>
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<h4 id="intro-des">Extract/Unzip </h4>
<p>Upload the zip file to the extract/unzip the file and move all files inside files folder to the main
folder(where you
want to install it). Most likely "public_html" will be your root folder on your cPanel enabled server.
Make sure you have moved the index.php and .htaccess as well.</p>
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<h4 id="intro-des">Create a Fresh New Database </h4>
<p>Go to MySQL Databases option from cPanel homepage. Then create a new database from there.</p>
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<h4 id="intro-des">Database User</h4>
<p>Create a user and set a password for the database and assign the database to the user. Take note of the
user name and password. We will need it later. </p>
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<h4 id="intro-des">Import the database</h4>
<p>Go to phpmyadmin option and import the database. The "database.sql" file is located inside "Database"
folder from the file you unzipped earlier. </p>
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<h4 id="intro-des">Configure database and user</h4>
<p>Go to application folder and edit the .env. Then put the DB_DATABASE, DB_USERNAME and DB_PASSWORD </p>
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<h4 id="intro-des">Default Login Access</h4>
<p>Admin Access: https://yoursite.com/admin <br>
Username: admin <br>
Password: admin</p>
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<p><strong>If you feel complexity with any of the steps, please connect with us <a
href="mailto:wstacksltd@gmail.com">wstacksltd@gmail.com</a></strong></p>
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<h2 class="intro-title mb-5">General Setting </h2>
<p>You can set basic settings of the site like name, tagline, accent colors and all the global control
settings. These settings will have an effect on the whole site.</p>
<br>
<div class="g-setting">
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<h4>site name</h4>
<p>the name of your website</p>
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<div class="general_options">
<h4>Tag Line</h4>
<p>The slogan of your website.</p>
</div>
<div class="general_options">
<h4>Currency Code</h4>
<p>The base currency code of your website.</p>
</div>
<div class="general_options">
<h4>Timezone</h4>
<p>Timezone of your application.</p>
</div>
<div class="general_options">
<h4>Copyright Text</h4>
<p>Footer copyright text of your business.</p>
</div>
<div class="general_options">
<h4>Email Verification</h4>
<p>You can enable or disable the Email Verification system</p>
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<h2 class="intro-title mb-5">Dashboards </h2>
<p>We have created very informative dashboards to work with. You'll be able to see a full overview of your
system from this dashboard like how many users you've, how many deposits
are made to your system and etc.</p>
<br>
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<h4 class="g-title">admin Dashboard</h4>
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<h4 class="g-title">User Dashboard</h4>
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alt=""></a>
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<h2 class="intro-title mb-5">Payment Gateway setup </h2>
<p>The main problem of online business is accepting the payments. And we tried our level best to solve this
problem. We
have added multiple online payments gateways. You can control all of them from the admin panel and you do
not need any
coding knowledge for that.</p>
<br>
<div class="g-setting">
<div class="general_options bg-none">
<h4 class="g-title">Payment Gateways</h4>
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<h2 class="intro-title mb-5">Extensions</h2>
<p>We have added some extentions to run the site securely and smoothly. Google Recaptcha to secure the form
submissions and Live Chat to connect with users easily.</p>
<br>
<div class="g-setting">
<div class="general_options">
<h4>Google Recaptcha</h4>
<p>It will protect login, contact and other forms from unwanted visitors</p>
</div>
<div class="general_options">
<h4>Live Chat</h4>
<p>This extension will help to chat with users</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
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<div class="section-six section" id="extra">
<div class="features-section">
<h2 class="intro-title mb-5">Other Features</h2>
<p>We have added some extentions to run the site securely and smoothly. Google Recaptcha to secure the form
submissions and Live Chat to connect with users easily.</p>
<br>
<div class="g-setting">
<div class="general_options">
<h4>GDPR Cookie Policy</h4>
<p>Users can accept or reject cookie policies</p>
</div>
<div class="general_options">
<h4>SEO</h4>
<p>It will help you add SEO to your site and modify SEO information at any time.</p>
</div>
<div class="general_options">
<h4>Multi-language</h4>
<p>Language module will help to add any language to the application</p>
</div>
</div>
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<div class="thank">
<h2 class="t-title">Thank you for purchasing the script!</h2>
<p>The important things, installation instructions, directory structure are described here. If you feel
any complexity please connect with us through the support email given below.</p>
<p>For all your support, installation, customization, or inquiry needs, we kindly request you visit our dedicated support desk at <br><br>
<a target="_blank" href="https://wstacks.com/client/support/desk">https://wstacks.com/client/support/desk</a><br><br>
To ensure a streamlined and efficient support experience, we kindly ask that you communicate with us exclusively through our support system. Your inquiries and requests will receive our prompt attention.<br><br>
Thank you for choosing our services.</p>
<h3 class="s-title">visit our website</h3>
<h4 class="s-sub-title"><a target="_blank" href="https://wstacks.com">wstacks.com</a></h4>
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