In this article we present some popular open source projects that use Laravel. These include everything from personal music streaming servers to rapid API generator tools. In addition, we’ll see a nice collection of content management systems, forums, and even social bookmarking style applications in this roundup. Below you will find a short description and links to projects like Koel, CachetHQ, Flarum, October CMS, Laravel Voyager, Laravel Spreadsheet, MonicaHQ, Invoice Ninja, Laravel Boilerplate, Pyrocms, Polrproject, Laravel Generator, Pigjian, Vuedo, Laravel Charts, Laravel IO, Lavalite, Laravel Zero, Voten, Council, Canvas, Bookstackapp, and Apiato.…

Community based websites often times allow you to mention another user by screen name. For example, if you post a message to Twitter and include a user’s name including the @ symbol, then the user will get a notification that you mentioned them. This tutorial will recreate that type of feature in the forum based application we have been building. In the replies area of threads, if a user types in a reply and includes @Tom as an example, then when Tom logs into his account he should see a notification in the upper right navigation bar area to alert him that he has a thread to check out.…

The goal of this lesson will be to set up a mechanism where by we can highlight new content to returning visitors of the website. So for example, consider a user visits the site and reads all of the threads on the front page and then leaves for the day. Later, a different visitor visits the site and adds a new reply to say three different threads.…