"Livewire, Eloquent and extending Statamic 6" at PHPxMEL

At the Statamic takeover of the September PHPxMEL meetup, I presented two main talks, and this one follows on from the work I set up in "Design to Statamic 6 in 40(ish) minutes". In that talk I took you through setting up a new Statamic 6 site, and building a fully functional (and editable) design.

But what about when you want to do more?

Being built on Laravel, Statamic is the perfect platform to build a website that is more than just words (in fact, I even wrote an article at Mity Digital about just that) and it is a superb fit for working with Livewire to help add real-time and data-based interactivity to your public-facing site, working with Eloquent models, using Statamic’s CP to interact with Eloquent models (yes, really!), and extending for reusability through Addons and Starter Kits - oh, and the insane number of Laravel packages available to help build incredible apps.

It really is a developer’s dream platform combination.

I wanted to show how easy it is to make your Statamic site be more than just words: what about collecting information from your visitors? And then displaying that on the site? And what about using Eloquent for data instead of storing in Statamic? And how to use Runway to be able to edit and interact with your Eloquent models?

Yeah, it’s all there - and this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Just like the previous talk, I had some technical issues with the recording on the day, so this is a re-record from my office.