Bootstrap Growl jQuery Notification Plugin in Laravel 10

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Inside this article we will see the concept i.e Bootstrap Growl jQuery Notification Plugin in Laravel 10. Article contains the classified information i.e Integrating jQuery Notification Plugin in Laravel application.

Bootstrap Growl jQuery Notification Plugin is a tool used for displaying notifications on web applications.

This plugin utilizes jQuery and Bootstrap Growl to provide customizable and responsive notifications to users in real-time. It enhances the user experience by providing feedback on events such as form submissions, system errors, and successful transactions.

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Let’s get started.

Laravel Installation

Open terminal and run this command to create a laravel project.

composer create-project laravel/laravel myblog

It will create a project folder with name myblog inside your local system.

To start the development server of laravel –

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000

Assuming laravel already installed inside your system.

Bootstrap Growl Plugin Files

Bootstrap Growl is a jQuery plugin. This plugin works when we use plugin files inside application. It provides CSS & JS files.

Plugin JS Link

# URL
https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-growl/1.0.0/jquery.bootstrap-growl.min.js

# Tag
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-growl/1.0.0/jquery.bootstrap-growl.min.js"></script>

Bootstrap CSS Link

# URL
https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css

# Tag
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css">

When you link these files with application, then you will able to use the methods of Bootstrap Growl Plugin.

$.bootstrapGrowl("<Message Here>", {})

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Create Application Controller (To Test)

Back to project terminal and run this artisan command.

$ php artisan make:controller SiteController

It will create a file SiteController.php inside /app/Http/Controllers folder.

Open SiteController.php and write this code into it.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class SiteController extends Controller
{
    public function showGrowlMessages(){

        // Flash messages settings
       
        session()->flash("success", "This is success message");
   
        session()->flash("warning", "This is warning message");
   
        session()->flash("info", "This is information message");
   
        session()->flash("error", "This is error message");
   
        return view("growl-notification");
      }
}

Here,

We stored each level of messages into it’s key. Like we have messages for success, error, warning, etc. These messages only for demonstration. You can change it according to need.

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Create View Template

Create a file growl-notification.blade.php inside /resources/views folder.

Open template file and write this code into it.

<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.min.js"></script>  
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-growl/1.0.0/jquery.bootstrap-growl.min.js"></script>


<script>
$(function(){

    @if(Session::has('success'))
        $.bootstrapGrowl('{{ Session::get("success") }}',{
            type: 'success',
            delay: 4000,
        });
    @endif

    @if(Session::has('error'))
        $.bootstrapGrowl('{{ Session::get("error") }}',{
            type: 'danger',
            delay: 4000,
        });
    @endif

    @if(Session::has('info'))
        $.bootstrapGrowl('{{ Session::get("info") }}',{
            type: 'info',
            delay: 4000,
        });
    @endif

    @if(Session::has('warning'))
        $.bootstrapGrowl('{{ Session::get("warning") }}',{
            type: 'warning',
            delay: 4000,
        });
    @endif
});
</script>

Concept

Reading session stored flash message and display it into a growl notification level.

@if(Session::has('success'))
    $.bootstrapGrowl('{{ Session::get("success") }}',{
        type: 'success',
        delay: 4000,
    });
@endif

Add Route

Open web.php from /routes folder. Add this route into it.

//...
use App\Http\Controllers\SiteController;

//...
Route::get('growl-notification', [SiteController::class, 'showGrowlMessages']);

Application Testing

Run this command into project terminal to start development server,

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/growl-notification

Plugin Error If not Linked Properly

If you miss the plugin files to attach before use it in a correct way, then at console developers tab you will get some plugin errors.

$.bootstrapGrowl is not a function

We hope this article helped you to learn about Bootstrap Growl jQuery Notification Plugin in Laravel 10 in a very detailed way.

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