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flashMessages()

flashMessages() — returns string

Available in: controller Category: Miscellaneous Functions

Displays a marked-up listing of messages that exist in the Flash.

NameTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
keysstringnoThe key (or list of keys) to show the value for. You can also use the key argument instead for better readability when accessing a single key.
classstringnoflash-messagesHTML class to set on the div element that contains the messages.
includeEmptyContainerbooleannofalseIncludes the div container even if the Flash is empty.
encodebooleannotrueUse this argument to decide whether the output of the function should be encoded in order to prevent Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. Set it to true to encode all relevant output for the specific HTML element in question (e.g. tag content, attribute values, and URLs). For HTML elements that have both tag content and attribute values you can set this argument to attributes to only encode attribute values and not tag content.