A discussion forum can be quite a useful resource to have on internal company projects or to allow clients to interact on projects, for example.

Discussion forums are a great way to create a community around a particular subject or topic, acting as a type of wiki. They are a store of knowledge of something or a record of a discussion, containing a history of changes of ideas and concepts and recording the evolution of thinking around a topic or subject. They can also be used to talk about cats.

To create this app, we'll create three controllers: one to handle discussions, one to handle comments, and one to handle any admin functionality that we might need, such as moderating comments and discussions.

We'll create a language file to store text, allowing you to have multiple language support, should that be required.

We will make amendments to the config.php file to allow for encryption support, which is necessary for sessions and password support.

We'll create all the...