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Question: Flash a message after updating


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Ryan M.

Community Member, 309 Posts

1 September 2010 at 4:09pm

Hi, this is mostly an exploratory question. Does anybody know of a feature in SilverStripe, or has anybody ever thought of building such a feature in SS, that would flash a highlighted message on the page after you update/save a page or dataobject? And by this, I mean on the front-end for member users. For example, if they edit their profile information and save it, I'd like to redirect back to the same page and have a small message flash at the top of the page: "your profile has been saved!".

I believe this would add to a better user experience, as sometimes when you edit a page and get returned to it, you have no idea whether the changes were saved or not unless you scroll back down and check.

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

1 September 2010 at 5:15pm

I've done this a couple of times its pretty straight forward to do so on a custom form implementation. You can use the session class to save that they submitted the form and instead of redirecting to a 'thanks' page use $this->redirectBack() to go back to the page.

In your Page Controller you also then need to check for the session state. Heres an example from an application I built a while back.

// in a controller eg Page_Controller

function StatusMessage {
	if(Session::get('ActionMessage')) {
		$message = Session::get('ActionMessage');
		$status = Session::get('ActionStatus');

		Session::clear('ActionStatus');
		Session::clear('ActionMessage');

		return new ArrayData(array('Message' => $message, 'Status' => $status));
	}

	return false;
}

And the template I just had a div with the message that appeared at the top of the page with a class based on whether it was an error or success etc.

<% if StatusMessage %>
<% control StatusMessage %>
<div class="message-$Status">
$Message
</div>
<% end_control %>
<% end_if %>

And so the final step is to set the statusmessage from your forms like

// your form process function...

Session::set('ActionStatus', 'success');
Session::set('ActionMessage', 'Profile Saved');

$this->redirectBack();

On the redirect back it should pick up a value for the action and display to the template.

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Ryan M.

Community Member, 309 Posts

11 September 2010 at 2:02am

Thanks Willr!

If anyone's curious, my final code was:

in Page.php -> Page_Controller:

public function StatusMessage() { 
  	if($message = Session::get('ActionMessage')) { 
      $status = Session::get('ActionStatus');
      Session::clear('ActionStatus'); 
      Session::clear('ActionMessage');
    	return new ArrayData(array('Message' => $message, 'Status' => $status)); 
  	}
		return false; 
	}

in any Template that needed the StatusMessage:

<% include StatusMessage %>

StatusMessage.ss template:

<% if StatusMessage %>
<% require javascript(http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js) %>
<% require javascript(mysite/javascript/behavior.js) %>
<% control StatusMessage %>
<div id="flash" class="$Status">$Message</div>
<% end_control %>
<% end_if %>

And I used jQuery to make the div fade out after 3000ms, in behavior.js:

(function($) {
	setTimeout(function(){
  $("#flash").fadeOut("slow", function () {
  $("#flash").remove();
      }); }, 3000);
})(jQuery);

And for the visual, attached is a screenshot of what it looks like.

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

11 September 2010 at 5:56pm

Cool glad you got it sorted! Would make a good tutorial for the wiki or ssbits.com!

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Martijn

Community Member, 271 Posts

11 September 2010 at 10:13pm

Edited: 11/09/2010 10:14pm

I always use a if Director::is_ajax() switch to return a json_response, but this seems like a great way to normalise the frontend js message behaviour.

How would one go about a 'normalized' fetching a FormResponse after ajax submitting a form with jQuery (instead of prototype like the cms uses)?

http://doc.silverstripe.org/recipes:forms#adding_ajax-behaviour_to_your_forms