Toby

You can configure the core JS setup in config/waterhole/system.php under echo_config. Replace it with whatever config you would need to use for Reverb, per the Laravel Broadcasting docs.

Hi @James Pence, this is a current limitation of the Laravel auth integration, to be added in a future release. Your proposed workaround sounds reasonable - let me know how this goes, here to answer any questions if needed.

s9e\TextFormatter is an original project under active development.

Hey @Tyler DuPont, while Waterhole will automatically embed .mp4 links, unfortunately embedding a YouTube video isn't as simple as appending the .mp4 extension to the URL.

However there is a TextFormatter plugin that can automatically embed YouTube videos (among other things). Take a look at Waterhole's Formatter documentation to learn how to configure the formatter, and the TextFormatter MediaEmbed plugin. The code will end up looking something like this:

use Waterhole\Extend;
use s9e\TextFormatter\Configurator;

Extend\Formatter::configure(function (Configurator $configurator) {
    $configurator->MediaEmbed->add('youtube');
});

Thanks for your question @Tom H. Waterhole doesn't support this currently, but the database and replies system has been designed with this in mind as a possible future addition. In theory this could be implemented now as an extension (by completely reimplementing the "show post" page) but it would require a decent amount of development work.

No ETA, but can confirm that the JSON API implementation is mostly complete (it will be read-only for now), as well as the changes to the extension API. It's not a particularly exciting release, but it's coming!

Hi @Gareth. If you've integrated Waterhole as a package into your Laravel app, then you can access the Waterhole models directly:

$posts = Waterhole\Models\Post::latest()->take(10)->get();

If your Waterhole installation is separate from your app, then an upcoming Waterhole release will contain a JSON API which will allow you to retrieve data from your Waterhole installation remotely.

Hi @Pete Swan, thanks for your question.

Take a look at the Laravel Authentication Integration docs. When implementing the HasWaterholeUser trait on your application's User model, you will want to override the toWaterholeUser() method so that it only returns a PendingUser object if the user has the correct role that allows them to access the forum:

    public function toWaterholeUser(): ?PendingUser
    {
        if (!$this->roles->contains(ROLE_ID)) {
            return null;
        }

        return new PendingUser(
            identifier: $this->getAuthIdentifier(),
            email: $this->email,
            name: $this->name,
        );
    }

Waterhole already requires the user to confirm their password when accessing the CP, so if you have a secure password it should already be pretty hardened. Multi-factor authentication is on the roadmap.

Probably not worth doing HTTP Basic Auth IMO, because it's not very secure. Restricting access per IP address could be a good extra measure.

There is currently no support for RTL, but this is something I'd like to add in the future.