To add a message to the flash que, you have a few options. There are four preset status types, and one for custom statuses.
Flash::error('On no, something failed!');
Flash::info('Your account has been created!');
Flash::success('Hooray, everything worked!');
Flash::warning('You left a field blank.');
Flash::message('foo', 'This is a foo message.');
To access your flash messages, look for the session variable named 'flash_messages'. If messages exist, this will be an associative array using the keys 'type' and 'content'.
Here is a quick example of how messages can be accessed and displayed using Laravel's Blade syntax
@if($messages = Session::get('flash_messages'))
@foreach($messages as $message)
<div class="flash {{ $message['type'] }}">{{ $message['content'] }}</div>
@endforeach
@endif