The Elefant admin interface checks a cookie named elefant_notification for messages and displays them using jGrowl. The standard practice when developing apps in Elefant is to add a notification and redirect the user to the next screen in your workflow instead of creating a separate page that simply says ""Your item has been saved. Click here to continue."" This helps save clicks, and makes users happy :)
To set a notification in PHP, do this:
<?php
$this->add_notification ('Your notification here.');
?>
You can combine this with a redirect like this:
<?php
if (/* object was saved */) {
$this->add_notification ('Object saved.');
$this->redirect ('/myapp/admin');
}
?>
And you can also add notifications in JavaScript like this:
$.add_notification ('Your notification here.');
This function is always available when a site admin is logged into Elefant.