PHP-Messsage-Form (under construction)

a convenient way to display messages to users.

ARCHIVE Oct 14, 2019

I liked this when I made it. I like it in theory. But I'm not interested right now. This functionality will likely be integrated into a website and might later be abstracted out into its own library.

You create a new message form with a title, message, and array of named links. Then you call display() to show it on the same page or redirect() to show it on a different page.

It theoretically should work, but it has not been tested yet.

Composer Installation

"require": { "rof/message-form": "dev-master" }

Manual Installation

Copy MessageForm.php to wherever you store your classes and set it up to be autoloaded OR include it manually.

Initial Setup

Create a file that contains:

\ROF\MessageForm::displaySession();

The default file path is yoursite.com/message.php You can choose a different location, but you will have to pass the full URL to the redirect() function call;

displaySession will display what's stored in the current session variable and clear it, so the message only displays once. It will show an error if there is no session data.

Usage

$messageForm = new \ROF\MessageForm("Subject", "MessageText", array("Home Page" => $homePageurl, "other Url" => $otherUrl));
$messageForm->redirect($filePath); //default is yoursite.com/message.php or you can provide the full url (protocol & domain)
//Pass nothing or NULL or FALSE to use the default
//or
$messageForm->display(); //this will show it on the current page. You may want to exit or return after to prevent further execution

That's it!

Changelog

Jan 3 2019

removed the getUrl call which was invalid and part of a previous project
made the array of links an optional argument in the constructor

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