FlashNotice Helper - EZ to use and Sexy too

[eluser]Andy Blackwell[/eluser]
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Time for me to contribute back to the community! So here's my first attempt...

For those that use or would like to use those one-time informational messages that display after an action of some type (like success, error, warning, info), I've made a helper for them.

Autoload the helper and now anywhere in your app you can add messages with this syntax:

Code:

FlashNotice::add('Your message goes here', 'error');
// the second parameter is an optional message type which can be
// any of the predefined values (info, success, warning, error)
// defaults to 'success'

Use those throughout your app and the helper stores them all in a Session var 'FlashNotice'

Then to diplay it in your view (preferably place this in a template header or something, so you only have to write it once)

Code:

FlashNotice::display();
// if there are any messages it will compile and display them,
// then destroy the Session var that stored them.
// otherwise it won't print anything to the page

I have created a default look and feel for the display. To use it, just include the folder with the Css and images, and include the stylesheet in your html.

I included an example of javascript code to utilize the close buttons on the box, and make the FlashNotice disappear from the page. You could also turn it into a modal box with a few tweaks if you wanted.

Hope some people find it useful.

As is, it's PHP5 only, since I used some things like private and static methods...sorry PHP4'ers!

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