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TheRealPapa
TheRealPapa

Reputation: 4539

Laravel 5.8 redirect back with message not passing the message to the front end

I have a controller with this redirect at the end of a method:

    // Setup Response message
    $msg = [
        'type' => 'success',
        'value' => 'Your action was successful',
    ];

    return redirect()->back()->with('message', $msg);

The response looks like this:

array:5 [▼
  "_flash" => array:2 [▶]
  "_token" => "stMmai4OuWI2QlhYGNzxSDyb1qINLfD3RWsoM8mx"
  "_previous" => array:1 [▶]
  "url" => []
  "login_web_59ba36addc2b2f9401580f014c7f58ea4e30989d" => 2
]

I am stumped as to what is causing the message to not be flashed through to session.

If I do this:

session()->flash('message', $msg);

dd(session()->all()); 

    // Setup Response message
    $msg = [
        'type' => 'success',
        'value' => 'Your action was successful',
    ];

    return redirect()->back()->with('message', $msg);

prior to the redirect, the session contains the message.

I even moved the two routes (POST and GET) outside of all Auth groups / Middleware, same result.

What could be clearing the session message?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5105

Answers (4)

Gpak
Gpak

Reputation: 3390

I had the same issues, and my code looked like below, I previously had a database operation in the try cache block, I removed and the data passed was no longer working, After numerous trials, I realized I have DB transactions, so I removed them and the session/flash data redirect()->back()->with($inputArray); started working

        DB::beginTransaction();
        try {
            if ($coupon == null) {
                $this->results['failure'] = __('messages.failure_coupon_is_invalid');
                return redirect()->back()->with($this->results);
            }

            setHasDiscount($coupon);
            $this->results['success'] = __('messages.success_coupon_applied');
            DB::commit();

            return redirect()->back()->with($this->results);
        } catch (Exception $exception) {
            DB::rollBack();
            $this->results['failure'] = $exception->getMessage();
            return redirect()->back()->with($this->results);
        }

Upvotes: 0

TheRealPapa
TheRealPapa

Reputation: 4539

@Udo was right, it seems a change in Laravel 5.8. This worked:

redirect()->back()->with('message', $msg);

Upvotes: 1

Udochukwu Enwerem
Udochukwu Enwerem

Reputation: 2823

A better way of flashing data to the current session is using the global session() helper. Using this method your code should look like this:

    $msg = [
        'type' => 'success',
        'value' => 'Your action was successful',
    ];

    session()->put('message', $msg);
    return redirect()->back();

NOTE:

Redirecting back using with(['message' => $msg]) passes the variable $message to a view or route. So you can access it using that variable name in the view you redirected to.

On the other hand, using either session()->put('message', $msg); or session()->flash('message', $msg); both flashes the data with key message into the current user session. So you can access the session data using session()->get('message')

UPDATE:

From my research, As of Laravel version 5.8, I think withInput() is now reserved for Request data (that is data pass to your controller via GET or POST request) and with() is reserved for passing data to a route or view either through route($route)->with() or view($view)->with().

So the issue with your code may be changes in the new update - version 5.8

Upvotes: 0

jtwes
jtwes

Reputation: 144

Try it with return redirect()->back()-withErrors('message', $msg)

EDIT: You use the ErrorBag here - maybe this works as it seems something is killing your session flash.

regards Jens

Upvotes: 0

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