Laravel 5.1 Login Session Message

Question

I'm trying to add a Session success message when a User login.

I've tried adding the following to the AuthenticatesUsers.php trait postLogin():

if (Auth::attempt($credentials, $request->has('remember'))) {
    return $this->handleUserWasAuthenticated($request, $throttles)->withSuccess("message");
}

I've also tried adding to the handleUserWasAuthenticated():

return redirect()->intended($this->redirectPath())->withSuccess("message");

I run composer dump-autoload after each change but it just will not flash the message in the view. I use a partial called success.blade.php and the contents are:

@if (Session::has('success'))
    <div class="alert alert-success">
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
        <strong>
            <i class="fa fa-check-circle fa-lg fa-fw"></i> Success. &nbsp;
        </strong>
        {{ Session::get('success') }}
    </div>
@endif

I think I'm missing something but I can't think what at the moment so hoping for a fresh set of eyes.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Don't use ->withSuccess() .

Use ->with('success', 'Success message') , as described in http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/responses#redirecting-with-flashed-session-data , or use the session manager. To access the session manager, you can use the Request object:

$request->session()->flash('success', 'Success message');

See http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/session#flash-data . You can also access the session manager using the Session facade:

Session::flash('success', 'Success message');