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Nick Parsons
Nick Parsons

Reputation: 8607

Custom error message on Product page in Magento

I've created an observer and I need to populate the messages_product_view div on the product page when a specific event happens. How can I go about populating this div? Below is a screenshot of the area that I need to populate.

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 2174

Answers (1)

drj201
drj201

Reputation: 1095

See the Magento Session models i.e. core/session, customer/session etc.

To add a message you can use for example:

Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addSuccess($message); // Add green success message
Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addError($message); // Add red error message
Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addNotice($message); // Add yellow notice message

Template files have a call to the following which renders the session messages. Look for this:

<?php echo $this->getMessagesBlock()->getGroupedHtml() ?>

Messages can also be retrieved manually like so:

$messages = Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->getMessages(true);
foreach($messages->getItems() as $message)
{ 
   $message->getText();
   //...
}

Upvotes: 3

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