Introduction
Basic Concepts
Understanding Routing
Controllers
Views
Assets
Modules Calling Modules
Parent & Child Modules
Database Operations
Modules within Modules
Templates & Themes
Helpers Explained
Form Handling
Working with Files
The Module Import Wizard
Authorization & Authentication
The API Explorer
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The Flashdata Helper
Trongate supports 'flashdata'. Flashdata is session data that will only be available for the next request, before being automatically removed. This can be useful for one-time informational messages (for example: 'The record was successfully created').
To Set Flashdata
Flashdata can be set using the set_flashdata() function, like so:
This is assuming that you have a message which, in this instance, has been assigned to a $msg variable. For example.
Of course, you can save a line of code by passing your message directly into your flashdata declaration. For example:
Displaying Flashdata
Flashdata can be displayed by calling flashdata() from within a view file.
By default, flashdata messages will be displayed as green text within a paragraph. However, you can change the format of your flashdata by adding optional opening and closing tags as arguments. For example:
Below is an example of a view file that contains the flashdata() method.
