My alert is not showing in laravel 5

Question

this is my PostController.php,

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Depress;
use App\Http\Requests;

class PostController extends Controller
{
    public function createPost(Request $request)
    {

        $depress = new Depress();
        $depress->depression = $request['depression'];
        if($request['name'])
            $depress->name = $request['name'];
        else
            $depress->name = "Depressed Anonymous";
        $depress->save();
        \Session::flash('info','Success');
        return redirect()->route('home');

    }
}

And This is my alert.blade.php,

@if(Session::has('info'))
    <div class="alert alert-success alert-dismissible" role="alert">
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close"><span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span></button>
        {{ Session::get('info') }}
    </div>
    <br>
@endif

And, I have included it in my layout.blade.php

But, no alert shows up...

thanks in advance

Answer 1

No need to use session flash. use the laravel way,

In your controller

return Redirect::to('home')->with('success', 'You message here.');

In your view

@if (isset($success))
<div class="alert alert-success alert-dismissible" role="alert">
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close"><span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span></button>
          {!! $success !!}. 
</div>
@endif

Answer 2

Change this line:

\\Session::flash('info','Success'); return redirect()->route('home');

To:

return redirect()->route('home')->with(['info' => 'Success']);

Basically, this will redirect you to home. So you need to make sure that in the action(function) that handles the route home , it returns to the view alert.balde.php or to a view that uses alert.balde.php . I tried doing this and it worked for me. Here is my code below:

in my controller:

public function home()
{
    return view('welcome');
}

public function test()
{
    return redirect()->route('home')->with(['info' => 'Success']);
}

And in my welcome.blade.php :

@if(Session::has('info'))
    <div class="alert alert-success alert-dismissible" role="alert">
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close"><span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span></button>
        {{ Session::get('info') }}
    </div>
@endif

And I get to see 'Success' in the view.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Use compact() on return and pass that variable in it. And you can access it as normal php variable in view.