# Easy Sweet Alert Messages for Laravel
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## Installation
First, pull in the package through Composer.
```
composer require uxweb/sweet-alert
```
If using laravel < 5.5 include the service provider and alias within `config/app.php`.
```php
'providers' => [
UxWeb\SweetAlert\SweetAlertServiceProvider::class,
];
'aliases' => [
'Alert' => UxWeb\SweetAlert\SweetAlert::class,
];
```
> Note that this package works only by using the [BEAUTIFUL REPLACEMENT FOR JAVASCRIPT'S "ALERT"](http://t4t5.github.io/sweetalert/).
Finally, install the Sweet Alert Javascript library through yarn or npm
Install using Yarn:
```
yarn add sweetalert:1.1.3 --dev
```
Install using Npm:
```
npm install sweetalert:1.1.3 --save-dev
```
## Usage
### Using the Facade
First import the Alert facade in your controller.
```php
use Alert;
```
Within your controllers, before you perform a redirect...
```php
public function store()
{
Alert::message('Robots are working!');
return Redirect::home();
}
```
Here are some examples on how you can use the facade:
```php
Alert::message('Message', 'Optional Title');
Alert::basic('Basic Message', 'Mandatory Title');
Alert::info('Info Message', 'Optional Title');
Alert::success('Success Message', 'Optional Title');
Alert::error('Error Message', 'Optional Title');
Alert::warning('Warning Message', 'Optional Title');
```
### Using the helper function
`alert($message = null, $title = '')`
In addition to the previous listed methods you can also just use the helper
function without specifying any message type. Doing so is similar to:
`alert()->message('Message', 'Optional Title')`
Like with the Facade we can use the helper with the same methods:
```php
alert()->message('Message', 'Optional Title');
alert()->basic('Basic Message', 'Mandatory Title');
alert()->info('Info Message', 'Optional Title');
alert()->success('Success Message', 'Optional Title');
alert()->error('Error Message', 'Optional Title');
alert()->warning('Warning Message', 'Optional Title');
alert()->basic('Basic Message', 'Mandatory Title')->autoclose(3500);
alert()->error('Error Message', 'Optional Title')->persistent('Close');
```
Within your controllers, before you perform a redirect...
```php
/**
* Destroy the user's session (logout).
*
* @return Response
*/
public function destroy()
{
Auth::logout();
alert()->success('You have been logged out.', 'Good bye!');
return home();
}
```
For a general information alert, just do: `alert('Some message');` (same as `alert()->message('Some message');`).
### Using the Middleware
#### Middleware Groups
First register the middleware in web middleware groups by simply adding the middleware class `UxWeb\SweetAlert\ConvertMessagesIntoSweetAlert::class` into the $middlewareGroups of your app/Http/Kernel.php class:
```php
protected $middlewareGroups = [
'web' => [
\App\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class,
...
\UxWeb\SweetAlert\ConvertMessagesIntoSweetAlert::class,
],
'api' => [
'throttle:60,1',
],
];
```
> Make sure you register the middleware within the 'web' group only.
#### Route middleware
Or if you would like to assign the middleware to specific routes only, you should add the middleware to `$routeMiddleware` in `app/Http/Kernel.php` file:
```php
protected $routeMiddleware = [
'auth' => \App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate::class,
....
'sweetalert' => \UxWeb\SweetAlert\ConvertMessagesIntoSweetAlert::class,
];
```
Next step: within your controllers, set your return message (using `with()`) and send the proper message and proper type.
```PHP
return redirect('dashboard')->with('success', 'Profile updated!');
```
or
```PHP
return redirect()->back()->with('errors', 'Profile updated!');
```
> **NOTE**: When using the middleware it will make an alert to display if it detects any of the following keys flashed into the session: `errors`, `success`, `warning`, `info`, `message`, `basic`.
### The View
Finally, to display the alert in the browser, you may use (or modify) the view that is included with this package. Simply include it in your layout view:
```html
Document
Welcome to my website...
@include('sweet::alert')
```
> **REMEMBER**: Always include the .css and .js files from the sweet-alert library.
### Final Considerations
By default, all alerts will dismiss after a sensible default number of seconds.
But not to worry, if you need to specify a different time you can:
```php
// -> Remember!, the number is set in milliseconds
alert('Hello World!')->autoclose(3000);
```
Also, if you need the alert to be persistent on the page until the user dismiss it by pressing the alert confirmation button:
```php
// -> The text will appear in the button
alert('Hello World!')->persistent("Close this");
```
You can render html in your message with the html() method like this:
```php
// -> html will be evaluated
alert('Click me')->html()->persistent("No, thanks");
```
## Customize
If you need to customize the alert message partial, run:
```bash
php artisan vendor:publish --provider "UxWeb\SweetAlert\SweetAlertServiceProvider"
```
The package view is located in the `resources/views/vendor/sweet/` directory.
You can customize this view to fit your needs.
A `sweet-alert.php` configuration file will be published to your `config` directory as well, this will allow you to set the default timer for all autoclose alerts.
### Configuration Options
You have access to the following configuration options to build a custom view:
```php
Session::get('sweet_alert.text')
Session::get('sweet_alert.type')
Session::get('sweet_alert.title')
Session::get('sweet_alert.confirmButtonText')
Session::get('sweet_alert.showConfirmButton')
Session::get('sweet_alert.allowOutsideClick')
Session::get('sweet_alert.timer')
```
Please check the CONFIGURATION section in the [website](http://t4t5.github.io/sweetalert/) for all other options available.
### Default View
```html
@if (Session::has('sweet_alert.alert'))
@endif
```
The `sweet_alert.alert` session key contains a JSON configuration object to pass it directly to Sweet Alert.
Note that `{!! !!}` are used to output the json configuration object unescaped, it will not work with `{{ }}` escaped output tags.
### Custom View
```html
@if (Session::has('sweet_alert.alert'))
@endif
```
Note that you must use `""` (double quotes) to wrap the values except for the timer option.
## Tests
To run the included test suite:
```bash
vendor/bin/phpunit
```
## Demo
```php
Alert::message('Welcome back!');
return Redirect::home();
```
```php
Alert::message('Your profile is up to date', 'Wonderful!');
return Redirect::home();
```
```php
Alert::message('Thanks for comment!')->persistent('Close');
return Redirect::home();
```
```php
Alert::info('Email was sent!');
return Redirect::home();
```
```php
Alert::error('Something went wrong', 'Oops!');
return Redirect::home();
```
```php
Alert::success('Good job!');
return Redirect::home();
```
```php
Alert::info('Random lorempixel.com : ')->html();
return Redirect::home();
```
```php
Alert::success('Good job!')->persistent("Close");
return Redirect::home();
```
