Comments on: Rails-like Flash messages in CakePHP

by: Luke

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:15:29 +0000

thanks for this - very helpful

by: Nate Constant

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:25:40 +0000

Aran, that’s a great question… I have no idea. Maybe it became old?? or maybe someone wrote something similar and this was not as relevant.

by: Aran

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:20:26 +0000

I like this a lot. I am very curious to know why they took this article out of the Bakery?

by: Nate Constant

Wed, 14 May 2008 14:48:45 +0000

Dave, let\’s do some debugging. I would suggest putting in a debug statement into the newly created flash() method. something like:

pr(\’HERE\’); exit;

This is just to make sure the new method is getting called.

by: Dave

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:43:04 +0000

In my controller, I’ve got, $this->flash('Your post has been updated.', '/posts');. In my layout, ?php $session->flash(); ?.

I’m using the 1.2.0.6311 beta … in case that might make a difference.

by: Nate Constant

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:37:22 +0000

Dave, how are you calling the flash method in your controllers? it should look like this: $this->flash(’this is my message’,'/path’);

Also, in your layout, make sure you have $session->flash(); (not just flash(); )

by: Dave

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:29:13 +0000

Maybe I’m missing something but I’ve got /app/app_controller.php defined as:

class AppController extends Controller {


	function flash($msg, $to) {

		$this->Session->setFlash($msg);

		$this->redirect($to);

		exit;

	}

}

and in my layout, I’ve got flash(); ?> but it isn’t doing anything different… still showing that goofy page in the middle…. any ideas of what could be going wrong?

by: Ryan

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:46:53 +0000

Thanks! I was sick of those weird interstitial message pages. Who on earth decided that was a good idea?