How To Use Laravel 8 Flash Message with Bootstrap Tutorial

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Flash message in laravel is a key factor to display some messages to user. There are several types of flash message notification bootstrap category classes like alert success, alert danger, alert info, alert warning messages.

Inside this article we will see the complete detail about all available flash message notification bootstrap classes. We will see in detailed concept and their usage.

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This article will help you to understand about laravel 8 flash message with bootstrap concept.

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Laravel Installation

We will create laravel project using composer. So, please make sure your system should have composer installed. If not, may be this article will help you to Install composer in system.

Here is the command to create a laravel project-

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

To start the development server of Laravel –

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000

Assuming laravel already installed inside your system.


Set Flash Message From Controller

Session Facade is used to set flash message.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Session;

class SiteController extends Controller
{
    public function showNotifications()
    {
        Session::flash('success', 'This is a success message');
        Session::flash('error', 'This is an error message');
        Session::flash('info', 'This is an info message');
        Session::flash('warning', 'This is a warning message');

        return view("notification");
    }
}

Illuminate\Support\Facades\Session is Session facade package.

Session::flash(key, value); is used to set flash message

success, error, info, warning are keys which we can access into layout files to print flash messages.


Get Flash Message at Layouts

To print flash messages first we need to check, flash message key exists or not. If exists then print else no message will be displayed.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>Laravel 8 Flash Message Tutorial</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css"/>
</head>
<body> 
 
<div class="container" style="margin-top:50px;">

    @if ($message = Session::get('success'))
    <div class="alert alert-success alert-block">
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">×</button>    
        <strong>{{ $message }}</strong>
    </div>
    @endif
      
    @if ($message = Session::get('error'))
    <div class="alert alert-danger alert-block">
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">×</button>    
        <strong>{{ $message }}</strong>
    </div>
    @endif
       
    @if ($message = Session::get('warning'))
    <div class="alert alert-warning alert-block">
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">×</button>    
        <strong>{{ $message }}</strong>
    </div>
    @endif
       
    @if ($message = Session::get('info'))
    <div class="alert alert-info alert-block">
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">×</button>    
        <strong>{{ $message }}</strong>
    </div>
    @endif
</div>

</body>
</html>

@if ($message = Session::get(‘error’)), by the help of this code we check that message key like error exists or not.


Add Route

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

//..

use App\Http\Controllers\SiteController;

Route::get("notification", [SiteController::class, "showNotifications"]);

//..

Application Testing

Run this command into project terminal to start development server,

php artisan serve

URL – http://127.0.0.1:8000/notification

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