New Plugin/Extension: Flash Messenger
Development and Programming
Have you ever wanted to have a form submit to back to its own page, and have a success message in place, as opposed to having generic thank you page (useful for edit forms especially, when the user might want to do successive edits lets say)?
Now you can do it like this:
{exp:comment:comment_form}
{exp:flash_msg msg='<span class="success">Comment submitted succesfully!</span>'}
......
{/exp:comment:comment_form}and then anywhere on that template you can put the variable {flash_msg} which will output this message only if the form was submitted succesfully (meaning that you weren’t taken to an EE error page).
This plugin is also accompanied by an extension which does some dirty work in the background…
If you want to read about the technical details of the implementations, you can read here:
http://www.aviblock.com/blog/2009/05/07/flash-messenger-for-expression-engine/
Hope you find this useful!
This looks really good and just in time for my site launch, so is it me or is the link for download missing:)
My apologies! I was so sure that it was attached, but I guess it wasn’t!
Thanks blocka! I am going to go check it out and come back to comment.
Before you try it out, I realized the version I uploaded has a syntax error in it…I’m reuploading it now and it should work.
When I upload the plugin & extension and go to activate the ext I get this error.
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare Flash_messenger::activate_extension() in /var/www/vhosts/discovervancouver.org/httpdocs/admin_cp/extensions/ext.flash_messenger.php on line 87All good now, will take a look.
After submit I am being sent to my default page and not back to the form. I am using this with the {exp:weblog:entry_form} not sure if it works with that tag. Here is the example of how I am using it.
{flash_msg}
{exp:weblog:entry_form weblog="blog" name="Blog"}
{exp:flash_msg msg="Form Submitted Succesfully!"} ...
This looks great.
After submit I am being sent to my default page and not back to the form. I am using this with the {exp:weblog:entry_form} not sure if it works with that tag. Here is the example of how I am using it.{flash_msg} {exp:weblog:entry_form weblog="blog" name="Blog"} {exp:flash_msg msg="Form Submitted Succesfully!"} ...
I think you’re missing the “return” parameter…
@Avi Oh I thought it automatically grabbed the URI, I get it now:)
Sounds great, is this achieved with php or javascript?
php
And the winner is flash messenger! Performs nicely in the test I did so far. I like this thing!
again, thanks for sharing.