i-lateral/silverstripe-systemmessages

Add popup notification messages to a Silverstripe site

Silverstripe System Messages Module

, _(*1)

Module for the Silverstripe CMS that adds content manageable messages to a site (that can be closed by via a user) via a template variable., _(*2)

Author

This module was created by i-lateral., _(*3)

Installation

Preferable you should installl this via composer using:, _(*4)

# composer require "i-lateral/silverstripe-systemmessages:0.*"

Alternativley install this module by downloading and adding to:, _(*5)

[silverstripe-root]/systemmessages, _(*6)

Then run:, _(*7)

http://yoursiteurl.com/dev/build/?flush=1

Or:, _(*8)

# sake dev/build flush=1

Usage

Once installed, you must add the template variable:, _(*9)

$SystemMessages.RenderedMessage

to any templates you require messages to appear on., _(*10)

You can manage messages in the admin area using the "Messages" tab., _(*11)

Built in JS libs

By default, system messages uses lightbox_me for modal messages. This can be disabled in the config for using your own jquery, disabling this will give the message the default bootstrap modal classes., _(*12)

config.yml, _(*13)

SystemMessages:
  use_default_js: false

_config.php, _(*14)

SystemMessages::config()->use_default_js = false;

Bootstrap support

All HTML uses bootstrap class names as well as custom system message ones but the modal box will not auto open on load., _(*15)

To enable modal auto opening on load, change the use_bootstrap config variable:, _(*16)

config.yml, _(*17)

SystemMessages:
  use_bootstrap: true

_config.php, _(*18)

SystemMessages::config()->use_bootstrap = true;