Easy Sweet Alert Messages for Laravel

Installation

First, pull in the package through Composer.

"require": {
    "uxweb/sweet-alert": "~1.4"
}

or faster using the terminal:

    composer require uxweb/sweet-alert

If using Laravel 5, include the service provider within config/app.php.

'providers' => [
    UxWeb\SweetAlert\SweetAlertServiceProvider::class,
];

And, for convenience, add a facade alias to this same file at the bottom:

'aliases' => [
    'Alert' => UxWeb\SweetAlert\SweetAlert::class,
];

Note that this package works only by using the BEAUTIFUL REPLACEMENT FOR JAVASCRIPT'S "ALERT".

Finally, you need to get the Sweet Alert library, you can so by:

Download the .js and .css from the website

If you are using Laravel Elixir for your front-end workflow, add sweet alert with yarn or npm

using Yarn:

    yarn add sweetalert

using Npm:

    npm install sweetalert

Usage

With the Facade

First import the Alert facade in your controller.

use Alert;

Within your controllers, before you perform a redirect...

public function store()
{
    Alert::message('Robots are working!');

    return Redirect::home();
}

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');

With the Helper

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:

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...

/**
 * 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');).

With the Middleware

Using middleware groups

First register the middleware in web middleware groups by simply add the middleware class UxWeb\SweetAlert\ConvertMessagesIntoSweetAlert::class into the $middlewareGroups of your app/Http/Kernel.php class:

    protected $middlewareGroups = [
        'web' => [
            \App\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class,
            ...
            \UxWeb\SweetAlert\ConvertMessagesIntoSweetAlert::class,
        ],

        'api' => [
            'throttle:60,1',
        ],
    ];

Ensure to register the middleware within 'web' group only.

Using 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:

protected $routeMiddleware = [
    'auth' => \App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate::class,
    ....
    'sweetalert' => \UxWeb\SweetAlert\ConvertMessagesIntoSweetAlert::class,
];

Next step, Within your controllers, set your return message (using with()), send the proper message and proper type

return redirect('dashboard')->with('success', 'Profile updated!');

return redirect()->back()->with('errors', 'Profile updated!');

NOTE: When using the middleware it will make an alert to display if 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 to your layout view:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Document</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/sweetalert.css">
</head>
<body>

    <div class="container">
        <p>Welcome to my website...</p>
    </div>

    <script src="js/sweetalert.min.js"></script>

    <!-- Include this after the sweet alert js file -->
    @include('sweet::alert')

</body>
</html>

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 no fear, if you need to specify a different time you can:

    // -> 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:

    // -> 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:

    // -> html will be evaluate
    alert('<a href="#">Click me</a>')->html()->persistent("No, thanks");

Customize

If you need to customize the alert message partial, run:

    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:

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 for all other options available.

Default View

@if (Session::has('sweet_alert.alert'))
    <script>
        swal({!! Session::get('sweet_alert.alert') !!});
    </script>
@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

@if (Session::has('sweet_alert.alert'))
    <script>
        swal({
            text: "{!! Session::get('sweet_alert.text') !!}",
            title: "{!! Session::get('sweet_alert.title') !!}",
            timer: {!! Session::get('sweet_alert.timer') !!},
            type: "{!! Session::get('sweet_alert.type') !!}",
            showConfirmButton: "{!! Session::get('sweet_alert.showConfirmButton') !!}",
            confirmButtonText: "{!! Session::get('sweet_alert.confirmButtonText') !!}",
            confirmButtonColor: "#AEDEF4"

            // more options
        });
    </script>
@endif

Note that you must use "" (double quotes) to wrap the values except for the timer option.

Tests

To run the included test suite:

vendor/bin/phpunit

Demo

Alert::message('Welcome back!');

return Redirect::home();

Alert::message('Your profile is up to date', 'Wonderful!');

return Redirect::home();

Alert::message('Thanks for comment!')->persistent('Close');

return Redirect::home();

Alert::info('Email was sent!');

return Redirect::home();

Alert::error('Something went wrong', 'Oops!');

return Redirect::home();

Alert::success('Good job!');

return Redirect::home();

Alert::info('Random lorempixel.com : <img src="http://lorempixel.com/150/150/">')->html();

return Redirect::home();

Alert::success('Good job!')->persistent("Close");

return Redirect::home();

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