Hi, Sometimes I feel limited by "flash messages", as I found developers to write code such as :
(in action context) $this->getUser()->setFlash('success', 'Update successful'); ... $this->getUser()->setFlash('error', 'An error has occured... '); ... $this->getUser()->setFlash('info', $sn_results.'results found'); .... etc. (in top of many templates) <?php if ($sf_user->hasFlash('success')): ?> <p class="success"><?php echo $sf_user->getFlash('success') ?></p> <?php endif; ?> <?php if ($sf_user->hasFlash('error')): ?> <p class="error"><?php echo $sf_user->getFlash('error') ?></p> <?php endif; ?> <?php if ($sf_user->hasFlash('info')): ?> <p class="info"><?php echo $sf_user->getFlash('info') ?></p> <?php endif; ?> In the templates, there is obviously code repetition. Even worse, imagine that you want to "flash" the user with two error messages, you have to do some ugly tricks such as : $this->getUser()->setFlash('error_xxx', 'An error XXX has occured... '); $this->getUser()->setFlash('error_yyy', 'An error XXX has occured... '); BTW, I've found the chosen word "flash" a bit confusing (clearly with Adobe's Flash technology), especially for web searches. So I've ended up by writing my own "custom" flash messaging, storing messages in a simple array, allowing me to do things such as : (action) $this->getUser()->addNote('error', 'An error has occured'); ... $this->getUser()->addNote('success', 'Update successful'); ... (template) use_helper('Notes'); get_user_notes(); => get_user_notes() generates the HTML <p class="xxx">xxxx</p> for each message, and empties the message array from the user session. Could Symfony users / developers be interested by this approach ? Do you think that this kind of behavior be available in future Symfony versions ? Regards, Maxime --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---