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Using Flash Messages Everywhere

Explore how to implement flash messages in PHP by storing messages in sessions that display once after redirects. This lesson teaches you to modularize flash message code for reuse and manage its placement outside public directories for security.

Creating a new flash message script

Due to the nature of these messages “flashing” in front of the user and then disappearing, these messages are called flash messages. It is a handy feature that we want to have on pretty much every page. Wherever we add a flash message to the $_SESSION variable, and wherever the browser gets redirected to, we should always see the message on that page. In Project Structure, we will ...