Question

I’m processing something and when the function is successful I would like to redirect to another page and there show the alert “Function successful”.

I’m using CodeIgniter, Javascript and Bootstrap

Any ideas will be appreciated

Answer 1

Once page X has redirected to page Y, page X is no longer open, so can no longer issue alerts. Your options include:

• don’t redirect. (Instead, you may be able to put page Y in an iframe; or, simply provide a link to it and let the user decide whether to click.)
• don’t alert.
• alert before redirecting. (This is basically the same thing. The user can’t actually interact with page Y until they’ve closed the alert, anyway, so it doesn’t really matter whether the alert comes before or the redirect or after it.)
• have page Y give the alert. For example, page X can redirect to http://example.com/path/to/Y/?alert=Function+successful, and you can design page Y to detect the query string and issue the alert.