redirect after login depending on role

By keirlawson on 20 Jul 2007 at 15:20 UTC

Hi,

I was wondering how I would go about seting up drupal so that after logging in users of a certain role would be taken to their own blog, whilst users of another role would be taken to a different page, any pointers as to how to go about this?

Cheers

Comments

Try frontpage module

shyamala commented 20 July 2007 at 15:54

You could use frontpage module, will allow different accessgroups to have different frontpage. Or you could right a code to redirect frontpage depending on the access control.

new features (Drupal 5.x and Drupal 4.7.x version of the module only)

* Specify a different front page based on Role. You can specify a special front page for each role type
* Display a custom mission statement for registered users who have not visited the site for a while You can specify the special mission and the 'time away' setting.

refer:http://drupal.org/project/front

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<a href ="http://drupal.org/node/137834">Login Destination</a>

shyamala commented 20 July 2007 at 16:30

Could try Login Destination

This module controls where users go after logging in. You can configure login destination on a settings page. It will be either static URL or a PHP snippet evaluating your own site's logic. You can also configure which pages redirection is applied

http://drupal.org/node/137834

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The login destination module

keirlawson commented 23 July 2007 at 11:26

The login destination module seems to be exactly what i need! I got the URL destination PHP working fine, however I cant seem to get the redirection condition code working, it looks like:

global $user;
$candidate = false;
foreach ($user->roles as $roleid => $rolename)
{
    if (strtolower(trim($rolename)) == 'candidate')
    {
        $candidate = true;
        break;
    }
}
return $candidate;

Even if the users role is set to "candidate", it fails to redirect, any ideas?

Automatic search

kingandy

he/him

commented 25 July 2007 at 16:12

I'm trying the same thing and it's not redirecting conditionally for me either. My conditional code uses PHP's in_array() function to search though:

global $user;
return in_array('Ambassadors',$user->roles);

++Andy

Solution

kingandy

he/him

commented 25 July 2007 at 16:31

Ahh, and I think I've figured it out ... the conditional is evaluated when the user tries to log in, not after a successful login.

Try moving your PHP snippet into the 'URL Destination Code' settings and determining a URL based on the role, like so:

  global $user;
  if (in_array('Ambassador',$user->roles)) $path = 'ambassadors';
  else $path = 'user';
  return $path;

++Andy

Fantastic!

Oddible-1 commented 11 December 2007 at 20:32

Thanks - this worked perfectly.

login destination as role based

ashiwebi commented 29 May 2008 at 10:40

global $user;
if (in_array('teacher',$user->roles))
{
return 'teacher'; //Page for teacher
}
elseif(in_array('student',$user->roles))
{
return 'student; //Page for student
}
elseif(in_array('parents',$user->roles))
{
return 'parents'; //Page for Parents
}
else
{
return 'home';
}

The above code is for different user with diferent role on the website.I have student,teacher,parents role.kingandy code help me to write this.Thnks kingandy. The login destination module depends on user only.

This works with Drupal 7 and

ishmael-sanchez commented 24 March 2011 at 20:06

This works with Drupal 7 and login destination.

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socialnicheguru commented 29 May 2008 at 00:37

i have been having problems with this. thanks

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I've been trying the

Dubber Dan commented 11 December 2008 at 21:20

I've been trying the different versions of code listed above with no luck. Have also tried the code at http://drupal.org/node/342858 but nothing does it.

My code currently is, or at least I did try, but got a validation error with is:

global $user;
if (in_array('Patient',$user->roles)) {
return 'node/99';
}
else if (in_array('Script Team',$user->roles)) {
return 'admin/user/user';
}
else if (in_array('Admin',$user->roles)) {
return 'admin';
}
else {
return 'practice-information';
}

So I'm stuck how to get this working.

Any suggestions?

Scrub that... Logged out and

Dubber Dan commented 11 December 2008 at 21:26

Scrub that... Logged out and back in and checked the code and it's working when using:

global $user;
if (in_array('Script Team',$user->roles)) $path = 'admin/user/user';
elseif (in_array('Patient',$user->roles)) $path = 'node/99';
elseif (in_array('Admin',$user->roles)) $path = 'admin';
else $path = 'user';
return $path;

Perfect.

FranCarstens commented 19 February 2009 at 19:08

This works perfectly, it should be added to the "login_destination.module" documentation or readme.

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Thanks

prateek_t2 commented 2 July 2010 at 12:52

This worked nicely

how can i get the user id in

peterum commented 15 July 2010 at 10:47

how can i get the user id in the path? i'm a php newbie... :(

i want sth like user/$userid/blog

got that working..but now, if

peterum commented 16 July 2010 at 10:49

got that working..but now, if a user registers and logs in for the first time, he wont be redirected to the edit account page to change his password. is there a way to make an extra rule for "first time login" and after that the other rules apply?

A bit of shameless

jaypan

Victoria, BC

commented 17 July 2010 at 02:28

A bit of shameless self-promotion, but you can use the Force Password Change module to force users to change their password on first time login. The way this module is set up should force the user to change their password regardless of the module you have set up.

...or it will cause an infinite loop. Depends on how you have set up the redirect. Try it out and see what happens.

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