[session] In Laravel, the best way to pass different types of flash messages in the session

You can make a multiple messages and with different types. Follow these steps below:

1. Create a file: "app/Components/FlashMessages.php"

namespace App\Components;

trait FlashMessages
{
  protected static function message($level = 'info', $message = null)
  {
      if (session()->has('messages')) {
          $messages = session()->pull('messages');
      }

      $messages[] = $message = ['level' => $level, 'message' => $message];

      session()->flash('messages', $messages);

      return $message;
  }

  protected static function messages()
  {
      return self::hasMessages() ? session()->pull('messages') : [];
  }

  protected static function hasMessages()
  {
      return session()->has('messages');
  }

  protected static function success($message)
  {
      return self::message('success', $message);
  }

  protected static function info($message)
  {
      return self::message('info', $message);
  }

  protected static function warning($message)
  {
      return self::message('warning', $message);
  }

  protected static function danger($message)
  {
      return self::message('danger', $message);
  }
}

2. On your base controller "app/Http/Controllers/Controller.php".

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\DispatchesJobs;
use Illuminate\Routing\Controller as BaseController;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Validation\ValidatesRequests;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\Access\AuthorizesRequests;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\Access\AuthorizesResources;

use App\Components\FlashMessages;

class Controller extends BaseController
{
    use AuthorizesRequests, AuthorizesResources, DispatchesJobs, ValidatesRequests;

    use FlashMessages;
}

This will make the FlashMessages trait available to all controllers that extending this class.

3. Create a blade template for our messages: "views/partials/messages.blade.php"

@if (count($messages))
<div class="row">
  <div class="col-md-12">
  @foreach ($messages as $message)
      <div class="alert alert-{{ $message['level'] }}">{!! $message['message'] !!}</div>
  @endforeach
  </div>
</div>
@endif

4. On "boot()" method of "app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php":

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider; 

use App\Components\FlashMessages;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
  use FlashMessages;

    public function boot()
    {
        view()->composer('partials.messages', function ($view) {

          $messages = self::messages();

          return $view->with('messages', $messages);
      });
    }

    ...
}

This will make the $messages variable available to "views/partials/message.blade.php" template whenever it is called.

5. On your template, include our messages template - "views/partials/messages.blade.php"

<div class="row">
  <p>Page title goes here</p>
</div>

@include ('partials.messages')

<div class="row">
  <div class="col-md-12">
      Page content goes here
  </div>
</div>

You only need to include the messages template wherever you want to display the messages on your page.

6. On your controller, you can simply do this to push flash messages:

use App\Components\FlashMessages;

class ProductsController {

  use FlashMessages;

  public function store(Request $request)
  {
      self::message('info', 'Just a plain message.');
      self::message('success', 'Item has been added.');
      self::message('warning', 'Service is currently under maintenance.');
      self::message('danger', 'An unknown error occured.');

      //or

      self::info('Just a plain message.');
      self::success('Item has been added.');
      self::warning('Service is currently under maintenance.');
      self::danger('An unknown error occured.');
  }

  ...

Hope it'l help you.