Working with Collections Demo

In this video we are looking at some of the automation and observability features for collections in Gateway. The video focuses on “docs” from the Waypoint extension which is a documentation plugin for WordPress. It extends Gateway by registering a set of 3 extensions, you can see the extension working live here at arcwp.ca at https://arcwp.ca/docs. The docs collection has a relationship to “DocGroup” via the Eloquent belongsTo (has one) relationship. In turn the DocGroup relates to Doc with a hasMany (one-to-many) relationship.

What we’re exploring here are the features always available to every registered collection in Gateway. These include:

1. Migrations, code that uses dbDelta() to run SQL updates keeping your custom database tables in sync with the current field configuration.
2. Testing auto-routes from the 5 routes created for each collection.
3. Observability in the Gateway Registered Collections list at WP Admin > Collections > Registered Collections > Your Collection.

In the video towards the end we look at the most important aspect of working with collections in Gateway. The data is stored in a normalized custom database table just as it would be if you built the entire system from scratch. And yet the reality is this collection and the entire Waypoint plugin was built in less than 10% of the time a development team would spend without a system like Gateway or the underlying Eloquent ORM.

Are you ready to try Gateway?

We hope that you’re inspired by what you see in this video to give Gateway a try for yourself. How about a demo version to get you started at https://arcwp.ca/get/? Better yet try our community version for as long as you like at https://github.com/arcwordpress/gateway-dev.