Laravel Livewire Form Example

This tutorial shows you laravel livewire form example. I’m going to show you about create form with laravel livewire. let’s discuss about laravel livewire tutorial. you will learn how to install livewire to laravel.

In this tutorial, we will create simple form using laravel livewire. you can use laravel livewire with laravel 6 and laravel 7 version.

Livewire is a full-stack framework for Laravel framework that makes building dynamic interfaces simple, without leaving the comfort of Laravel. if you are using livewire with laravel then you don't worry about writing jquery ajax code, livewire will help to write very simple way jquery ajax code using php. without page refresh laravel validation will works, form will submit etc.

Here, i will give you very simple example to creating contact form with name and email and i will store that data to database without refresh page and too many lines of code in blade file. we will use only livewire/livewire package.

So, let's follow bellow step and you will get bellow layout:

Step 1 : Install Laravel 7

first of all we need to get fresh Laravel 7 version application using bellow command, So open your terminal OR command prompt and run bellow command:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

Step 2 : Create Migration and Model

Here, we need create database migration for files table and also we will create model for files table.

php artisan make:migration create_contacts_table

Migration:

<?php
  
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
  
class CreateContactsUsForms extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     /
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('contacts', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->bigIncrements('id');
            $table->string('name');
            $table->string('email');
            $table->text('body');
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }
  
    /*
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('contacts');
    }
}

php artisan migrate

now we will create Contact model by using following command:

php artisan make:model Contact

App/Contact.php

<?php
  
namespace App;
  
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
  
class Contact extends Model
{
     /**
     * The attributes that are mass assignable.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $fillable = [
        'name', 'email', 'body',
    ];
}

Step 3: Install Livewire

now in this step, we will simply install livewire to our laravel 7 application using bellow command:

composer require livewire/livewire

Step 4: Create Component

Now here we will create livewire component using their command. so run bellow command to create contact us form component.

php artisan make:livewire contact-form

Now they created fies on both path:

app/Http/Livewire/ContactForm.phpresources/views/livewire/contact-form.blade.php

Now both file we will update as bellow for our contact us form.

app/Http/Livewire/ContactForm.php

<?php
  
namespace App\Http\Livewire;
  
use Livewire\Component;
use App\Contact;
  
class ContactForm extends Component
{
    public $name;
    public $email;
    public $body;
  
    public function submit()
    {
        $validatedData = $this->validate([
            'name' => 'required|min:6',
            'email' => 'required|email',
            'body' => 'required',
        ]);
  
        Contact::create($validatedData);
  
        return redirect()->to('/form');
    }
  
    public function render()
    {
        return view('livewire.contact-form');
    }
}

resources/views/livewire/contact-form.blade.php

<form wire:submit.prevent="submit">
    <div class="form-group">
        <label for="exampleInputName">Name</label>
        <input type="text" class="form-control" id="exampleInputName" placeholder="Enter name" wire:model="name">
        @error('name') <span class="text-danger">{{ $message }}</span> @enderror
    </div>
  
    <div class="form-group">
        <label for="exampleInputEmail">Email</label>
        <input type="text" class="form-control" id="exampleInputEmail" placeholder="Enter name" wire:model="email">
        @error('email') <span class="text-danger">{{ $message }}</span> @enderror
    </div>
  
    <div class="form-group">
        <label for="exampleInputbody">Body</label>
        <textarea class="form-control" id="exampleInputbody" placeholder="Enter Body" wire:model="body"></textarea>
        @error('body') <span class="text-danger">{{ $message }}</span> @enderror
    </div>
  
    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Save Contact</button>
</form>

Step 5: Create Route

now we will create one route for calling our example, so let's add new route to web.php file as bellow:

routes/web.php

Route::get('/form', function () {    
    return view('form');
});

Step 6: Create View File

here, we will create blade file for call form route. in this file we will use @livewireStyles, @livewireScripts and @livewire('contact-form'). so let's add it.

resources/views/form.blade.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title></title>
    @livewireStyles
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ asset('css/app.css') }}">
</head>
<body>
  
<div class="container">
  
    <div class="card">
     
      <div class="card-body">
        @livewire('contact-form')
      </div>
    </div>
      
</div>
  
</body>
<script src="{{ asset('js/app.js') }}"></script>
@livewireScripts
</html>

Now you can run using bellow command:

php artisan serve

Open bellow URL:

http://localhost:8000/form