Laravel Flash Notifications

Laravel 5 flash messages, originally developed after the Laracasts video tutorial on the same topic: Flexible Flash Messages.

Install

Install via composer

$ composer require squareboat/flash

Configure Laravel

Once installation operation is complete, simply add both the service provider and facade classes to your project's config/app.php file:

Service Provider

SquareBoat\Flash\FlashServiceProvider::class,

Facade

'Flash' => SquareBoat\Flash\Facades\Flash::class,

Include default alert view to your layout

Package default provides bootstrap ready alert view. Just include flash::message file to your main layout in blade:

@include('flash::message')

or if you don't use blade:

<?= view('flash::message') ?>

If you need to modify the flash message partials, you can run:

php artisan vendor:publish

The package view will now be located in the resources/views/vendor/flash directory.

And that's it! With your coffee in reach, start flashing out messages!

Usage

Within your controllers, before you perform a redirect...

public function create()
{
    // do something awesome...

    flash()->success('Resource created successfully!');

    return redirect()->route('dashboard');
}

Level for all alerts are following:

Success

Flash::success('This is a success message.');

or

flash()->success('This is a success message.');

Info

Flash::info('This is an info message.');

or

flash()->info('This is an info message.');

Warning

Flash::warning('This is a warning message.');

or

flash()->warning('This is a warning message.');

Error

Flash::error('This is an error message.');

or

flash()->error('This is an error message.');

Important

Flash::info('This is an important message.')->important();

or

flash('This is an important message.')->important();

Hiding Flash Messages

A common desire is to display a flash message for a few seconds, and then hide it. To handle this, write a simple bit of JavaScript. For example, using jQuery, you might add the following snippet just before the closing tag.

<script>
  $('div.alert').not('.alert-important').delay(3000).fadeOut(350);
</script>

This will find any alerts - excluding the important ones, which should remain until manually closed by the user - wait three seconds, and then fade them out.

License

The MIT License. Please see License File for more information. Copyright © 2016 SquareBoat