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Is it a good practice to set a flash message in the model?

I'm developping some functonalities that perform some db related stuff so it should be in my active record model.

I would like to give some feedback to the user depending on the results of the db queries using setFlash.

So my question is: is it a good practice to set a flash message inside a model instead of a controller?

Solution

  • You can access all these from the controller:

    entry already exists - you have $model->isNewRecord

    entry added - you have if($model->save()) { //successful } else { //unsuccessful }

    The model should best be left to define the model, and not define which message should be displayed to the user - that's what controllers are for.