About the Project

JournalPHP is an open-source platform for creating topic-based communities. Users publish posts, discuss them in comments, follow authors and communities, and exchange private messages. Administrators manage everything through the built-in admin panel — without third-party services or SaaS restrictions.

Who JournalPHP Is For

Audience	Benefits
Administrators	Ready platform on your own server, full data ownership, no per-user fees
Developers	Familiar Laravel + Vue + Inertia stack, MIT license, Docker, extensible architecture
Teams & Communities	Feed, discussions, subscriptions, moderation, and monetization — all included

Key Features

Content & Communities

• Topic-based communities (user creation can be enabled in admin settings)
• Block post editor (Editor.js) with autosave and version history
• Polls and voting in posts
• Reposts, pinning, unpublishing
• Tags and tag navigation
• Personal, popular, and editorial feeds
• sitemap.xml generation and separate XML maps

Social Mechanics

• Reactions and likes on posts and comments
• Follow authors and communities
• Bookmarks and favorites
• Mentions (@username) with notifications
• User rating and top-authors widget
• Saved GIFs

Profile & Account

• Email registration and login
• OAuth: Google, Yandex, VKontakte, Facebook, Apple, GitHub
• One Tap — quick sign-in via Google and Yandex (popup for guests)
• Public profile — avatar, header, bio
• Session management and soft account deletion
• Ignore users, posts, and keywords

Messages & Notifications

• Real-time private chats (Laravel Reverb / WebSocket)
• Notifications for reactions, replies, mentions
• Per-user notification settings
• Email notifications

Moderation & Safety

• Reports on posts, comments, and users
• Unmoderated content queue
• Temporary and permanent bans
• Content bans (restrict publishing without blocking the account)
• Automatic bans based on violation rules
• AI text moderation (Deepseek)
• Image moderation (Yandex Vision API)

Subscriptions & Monetization

• Subscription plans with custom feature sets
• Payment providers: YooKassa, T-Bank
• Auto-renewal
• Features gated by subscription: AI summaries, video avatar, badges
• Banner and inline advertising blocks

AI Integrations

• Automated post summaries (DeepSeek)
• Comment bot powered by ChatGPT
• Prompt and API key configuration via admin panel (/admin-panel/ai-settings); DEEPSEEK_* env vars as fallback
• AI text and image moderation

SEO

• Metadata for key pages
• OpenGraph and JSON-LD for posts, profiles, and communities
• External link metadata parsing
• Short links and redirects

Technology Stack

Layer	Technologies
Backend	PHP 8.4+, Laravel 13
Frontend	Vue 3, Inertia.js 2, Vite, Tailwind CSS 3
Database	MySQL 8
Cache / Sessions / Queues	Redis (Predis)
Real Time	Laravel Reverb (WebSocket)
Queue Monitoring	Laravel Horizon
Search	Laravel Scout (.env.example sets SCOUT_DRIVER=null; config/scout.php defaults to algolia; optional database driver)
Media	Local, Cloudinary, Yandex Cloud Object Storage
Infrastructure	Docker, Docker Compose, Nginx, Supervisor

License

JournalPHP is released under the MIT License — you are free to use, modify, and distribute the code.