By streever on

Hi folks,

Is there anyway to set a "drupal message" on a link I'm putting in? it is a link to a certain page, and I want, when someone clicks that link, to trigger a message that will appear in the typical "Drupal Message Area".

Drupal messages work with my theme, but I am not sure how to trigger them without a custom module. However, I am not sure how to link a custom module to a link click!

I really just want to set this message when they click the link.

Another possibility I'm thinking of, is it loads the page, with a line to trigger a javascript overlay window. However, that doesn't use the Drupal message area (which I use all over the site) and may break for some computers, so I'd rather not go that route. I only mention it because I know it is possible.

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VanD’s picture

VanD commented

Could you add a block that people see when the click the link and arrive on the new page?

Does the Notifications module do what you want?

- Craig Vanderlinden @cvanderlinden

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streever commented

It looks like Notifications is a BIG piece that does a lot--but not necessarily what I'm looking for (forgive me if I missed a feature)--it seems to send messages outside of the site, which isn't what I want.

My hope is that I can just trigger a message on the page they arrive on. The message only applies for people who come via a certain link, so I can't use a block and show it to everyone. I really just want to target those people who click that one link. (there are many ways to get to the page, and the message only applies to people who come a certain way)

I think there is probably some way to set a "status" message in Drupal, which would accomplish this, when people click a link--much like "?destination=page" can be added to any link, I am sure there is a way to set (for example) "?status=message to display"

Does that make sense?

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VanD commented

Ok, well you can make the block and have PHP code in it something from the URL

If the link they click on is: http://drupal.org/node/111?status=true
If normal visitors want to reach the same node the link can be: http://drupal.org/node/111

if (isset($_GET['status'])) {
     $status = $_GET['status'];
     if ($status == true) {
          echo '<div class="messages">message here</div>';
     }
}

Or something like that.

- Craig Vanderlinden @cvanderlinden

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streever commented

Oh man, that is perfect. You are the hero of everything. Thank you!

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streever commented

Sorry, conceptually, it is perfect,but I'm finding it not working! Let me run my code by you and see what I'm missing if you don't mind:

I have a link which sends people to site.com/page?status=true

I have a code in a block which is on that page, which says,

<?php
if (isset($_GET['status'])) {
     $status = $_GET['status'];
     if ($status == true) {
          echo '<div class="messages status">My message</div>';
     }
}
?>

Nothing is appearing, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong--is there anything incorrect in that code? It looks right to me and I am seeing no errors, so I assume it is executing.

I added a

It works

line AFTER the closing PHP tag, and sure enough, that appears when I go to the page (using the url?status=true and without), but the actual message does not appear. Thanks in advance.

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streever commented

WOO! Got it!

A kindly drupal IRC user pointed me in the right direction.

Here is the code:

<?php
// drupal_set_message('GET:<br/><pre>' . print_r($_GET, TRUE) . '</pre>');
if (isset($_GET['status'])) {
  $status = $_GET['status'];
    if ($status == TRUE) {
      drupal_set_message(t("You can add any product from the store to your registry by clicking the Add to Registry button on the product's page."));
   }
}
?>

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VanD commented

Well done!
Glad it all worked out!

- Craig Vanderlinden @cvanderlinden