Magento - Module Development: Adding Status Messages (Error, Info etc)

July 9th, 2011

It turns out after hours of searching and trial and error that this task is relatively simple.

In your controller you simply do this:

$session = Mage::getSingleton('core/session');
$session->addError($this->__('My error Message'));

in your template file you then call the message like this:

<?php echo $this->getMessagesBlock()->getGroupedHtml(); ?>
I recommend creating some helper methods you can call in your controller: 
    private function add_error($error)
    {
        $session = Mage::getSingleton('core/session');
        $session->addError($this->__($error));
    }

    private function clear_errors()
    {
        $session = Mage::getSingleton('core/session');
        $session->getMessages(true);
    }
Posted by Steven Ross Filed in Magento

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