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Making flash messages disapear, with YUI.

Posted by Duncan | Posted in Yahoo! UI, cakePHP | Posted on 25-10-2008

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Ok, so we all know how useful those flash messages are that cakePHP throw at us, “you’ve done it wrong, try again”. Well as much as I like them I don’t want to be reminded of my error untill I go to a different page. The answer is to make them disapear.

Using the YUI Animation Utility, we can simply make the div containing the message close to nothing. First you need to make sure your $session->flash() is wrapped in a div if it appears.

 
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