Customize Flash message in Cakephp 2

If you want to customize flash message, and want to integrate your own alert flash box, then you can do this by SessionComponent method.

Step 1 : First of all you need to include the session component.

public $components = array('Session');

Step 2: Now in the second step we will create custom_flash.ctp file in Elements folder located in cakephp_project/app/View/Elements/

In this file, you can put your own alert box flash html in the following way:

<p class="notification">
  <?php echo $message; ?>
</p>

Now save this custom_flash.ctp file.

Step 3: Now in the third step we will call the method SetFlash in controller. You can see the source code for it.

function setFlash($message, $element = 'default', $params = array(), $key = 'flash')

As you can see that the second parameter is used for calling view element, so here you will call custom_flash in the following way:

$this->Session->setFlash(__('Your message.'), 'custom_flash');

Now save your controller and now perform action in order to get this flash message:

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