Can't get Message to be sent with Redirect

Hi everyone, having a super annoying thing happening trying to send Success messages when redirecting. I've browsed tons of similar questions on here but not found any answers.

At the end of my POST controller action I attempt to process the below code to send it back to my GET page. Ideally since it succeeds to that point it will display a message.

return redirect()->route('AddNewDocument')->with('message', 'This is a Success Message!');

Here is my blade view

@if(isset($message))
                <div class="alert alert-success">
                    {{ $message }}
                </div>
            @endif

Any ideas? If I submit it as

return redirect('/admin/documents/add')->withErrors(['errors', 'This is a Success Message']);

it will successfully pass to my error part of my view. I've also tried working with Sessions with no luck!

mchiasson

8 years ago

Level 1

When placing the following in my view

 <?php echo '<pre>';var_dump(session()->all()); ?>

It returns

array (size=6)
  '_token' => string 'HDKkFo2JRNj9IN26WLuDP0jYogRX1Q3WoL0gxt6Z' (length=40)
  '_flash' => 
    array (size=2)
      'old' => 
        array (size=1)
          0 => string 'Message' (length=7)
      'new' => 
        array (size=0)
          empty
  '_previous' => 
    array (size=1)
      'url' => string 'http://homestead3.test/admin/documents/add' (length=42)
  'url' => 
    array (size=0)
      empty
  'login_web_59ba36addc2b2f9401580f014c7f58ea4e30989d' => int 1
  'Message' => string 'This is a Success Message' (length=25)

It looks like the Message variable is there, now sure why it won't display with

{{$message}}

mchiasson

8 years ago

Best Answer

Level 1

Ok so looks like that is part of my 'Session' array anyways. So I got it to display by using this. Leaving this up here for anyone else to find helpful!

@if(Session::get('Message'))
                <div class="alert alert-success">
                    {{ Session::get('Message') }}
                </div>
            @endif

Snapey

8 years ago

Level 122

Just use the method in the docs?

https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/redirects#redirecting-with-flashed-session-data

Because something is present in the session does not mean it is automatically available as a variable in the view

If you use flash() then laravel knows that anything inside session _flash needs copying to variables of the same name

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