Displaying a message on the page after certain action

[eluser]Lone[/eluser]
Ill just confirm that we just replaced the Sessions Class file to a 1.5.4 install with no problemos at all.


cinewbie81: I think you perception of how flashdata works might be wrong. As far as I can tell it is best used for a page redirect - here is a quick sample:

1. You have a blog comment form that a user fills out and is submitted and run through a controller function which is then redirected to the viewComments controller function.

Code:

function addComment()
  {
      // save comment to database code here
      $this->session->set_flashdata('msg', 'Comment added');
      redirect('/blog/viewComments/');
  }

2. The viewComments page is then loaded with all of the comments and the message at top

Code:

function viewComments()
  {
      // code to output comments here
      $data['msg'] = $this->session->flashdata('msg');
      $this->load->view('viewComments',$data);
  }

In the View you would then output the message using $msg


Hope this makes sense as its hard to explain without a full code sample :-S