README

A simple package for handling flash messages / notifications in Laravel. Written to suit my needs - but hopefully someone else will find it useful too.

The current version requires Laravel 7.0 & PHP 8.0 or greater. If you have a project that requires a lower version of PHP or Laravel, check the requirements of the older releases.

Installation

The recommended way is using Composer - simply run this command in your terminal:

composer require gbuckingham89/laraflash

The service provider and facade will be automatically registered for you unless you have disabled auto discovery. If this is the case, you'll need to manually register the service provider and facade:

For the service provider, add the following to the providers array in your app.php config file:

Gbuckingham89\Laraflash\ServiceProvider::class

For the facade, add the following to the aliases array in your app.php config file:

'Laraflash' => Gbuckingham89\Laraflash\Facade\Laraflash::class

Finally, you'll need to publish the view file (unless you want to roll your own). Do this by running this command in your terminal:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Gbuckingham89\Laraflash\ServiceProvider"

Use

Setting a message

Before you redirect to another page, simply use the Laraflash facade to set your message. You can call the main flash method as follows:

Laraflash::flash("This is a flash message.", "success");

The first parameter is your message, the second is the priority level.

There are also four helper methods available for easier setting of priority levels:

Laraflash::success("This is a success flash message.");

Laraflash::info("This is an info flash message.");

Laraflash::warning("This is a warning flash message.");

Laraflash::danger("This is a danger flash message.");

Displaying the message

To display the message, simply include the bundled view (built for Bootstrap) in your view:

@include('laraflash::laraflash')

Alternatively, you can access the data in the session directly (stored in laraflash.message and laraflash.level) and roll your own view.

Testing Assertions

This package provides Gbuckingham89\Laraflash\LaraflashAssertions with some basic/common assertions if you have to test that your responses contain a laraflash message, or not.

use Gbuckingham89\Laraflash\LaraflashAssertions;

LaraflashAssertions::assertResponseDoesntHaveLaraflash($response);

LaraflashAssertions::assertResponseHasLaraflash($response, 'info', 'The message you are expecting');

LaraflashAssertions::assertResponseHasLaraflashSuccess($response, 'The message you are expecting');
LaraflashAssertions::assertResponseHasLaraflashInfo($response, 'The message you are expecting');
LaraflashAssertions::assertResponseHasLaraflashWarning($response, 'The message you are expecting');
LaraflashAssertions::assertResponseHasLaraflashDanger($response, 'The message you are expecting');

Copyright and license

Code and documentation copyright George Buckingham.

Code released under the MIT License.