Different Landing page after login based on username

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terobot Reply #1, 14 years, 10 months ago

I have a site with 3 logins. The usernames are BOARD, ZONE and COMMITTEE. The login form is on page 163.

When a BOARD member logs in, they need to be redirected to page 164.
ZONE members are taken to page 165
COMMITTEE members to 166.

How do I achieve this? I've read splittingred's comments in another post suggesting to use a posthook so this is what I've tried with no luck.

Login snippet call:

[[!Login? 
&loginTpl=`lgnLoginTpl` 
&logoutTpl=`lgnLogoutTpl` 
&errTpl=`lgnErrTpl` 
&postHooks=`redirect` 
&logoutResourceId=`163`]]

For each of the three users, in Manage Users>Extended Fields I've added the attribute "redirect - 164" (or 165,166)

I then created a Snippet named "redirect":

<?php
$profile = $modx->user->getOne('Profile');
if ($profile) {
  $extended = $profile->get('extended');
  if (!empty($extended['redirect'])) {
    $url = $modx->makeUrl($extended['redirect'],'','','full');
    $modx->sendRedirect($url);
  }
}
return true;

Is this all I need to do to get the redirection happening, or am I missing something?

This question has been answered by multiple community members. See the first response.

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BobRay Reply #2, 14 years, 10 months ago

I think there might already be a snippet called 'redirect'. Try using a different name for yours.

Also, you might try this to make sure you're getting the profile and redirect value:

if ($profile) {
  $extended = $profile->get('extended');
  if (!empty($extended['redirect'])) {
    $url = $modx->makeUrl($extended['redirect'],'','','full');
    $modx->sendRedirect($url);
  } else {
      die('No redirect value');
  }
} else {
    die('No Profile');
}

BTW, it appears that you could do without the extended field and just test the username:

$username = $modx->user->get('username');

$pageId = $modx->getOption('site_start');

switch ($username) {
      case: 'BOARD':
          $pageId = 164;
          break;
      case: 'ZONE':
          $pageId = 165;
          break;
      case: 'COMMITTEE':
          $pageId = 166;
          break;
}

$modx->sendRedirect($modx->makeUrl($pageId, "", "", 'full'))

; [ed. note: BobRay last edited this post 14 years, 10 months ago.]

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terobot Reply #3, 14 years, 10 months ago

Thanks. I've changed the snippet name to 'landingPage' and replaced the snippet code with what you provided above so that it looks like this:

<?php
$profile = $modx->user->getOne('Profile');
if ($profile) {
  $extended = $profile->get('extended');
  if (!empty($extended['redirect'])) {
    $url = $modx->makeUrl($extended['redirect'],'','','full');
    $modx->sendRedirect($url);
  }
} else {
    die('No Profile');
}

It's not picking up the profile so I see 'No Profile' upon logging in. I've added the following below my snippet call to see what's going on.

[[!Login? 
&loginTpl=`lgnLoginTpl` 
&logoutTpl=`lgnLogoutTpl` 
&errTpl=`lgnErrTpl` 
&postHooks=`landingPage`
&logoutResourceId=`163`]]

[[!Profile]]
<p>[[+username]]'s landing page is [[+redirect]]</p>

When I log in as BOARD it successfully displays BOARD's landing page is 164. But that's after I see the 'No Profile' message and refresh the page to clear it.

The access permissions are working fine (ie. when logged in as BOARD, I can view the BOARD page and not the other two pages - I just can't land on the BOARD page upon logging in). Can I safely assume that my problem has nothing to do with Context Access, Roles, etc.?

I've cleared Permissions, flushed Cache. Any other suggestions?

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terobot Reply #4, 14 years, 10 months ago

I'm heading down the path of testing the username instead of using extended fields and I've reduced the snippet code of 'landingPage' to this:

<?php
$username = $modx->user->get('username');
 
$pageId = '163';
 
switch ($username) {
  case 'BOARD':
          $pageId = '164';
          break;
  case 'ZONE':
          $pageId = '165';
          break;
  case 'COMMITTEE':
          $pageId = '166';
          break;
}

$landingPage = $modx->makeUrl($pageId);
$modx->sendRedirect($landingPage);

It's still not working, but if I call the snippet [[!landingPage]] independently from some other page, it recognizes the current username and redirects me correctly. Something is therefore going wrong when the snippet is called via

[[!Login? ... &postHooks=`landingPage`]]

It can't seem to detect the username or profile.

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BobRay Reply #5, 14 years, 10 months ago

Try putting this as line 3:

die( ' Username:  ' . $username);

You may have to use one of these:

$username = $hook->getValue('username');
$username = $hook->getValue('login.username');

Also, always generate a full URL with makeUrl():

$landingPage = $modx->makeUrl($pageId, "", "", 'full');

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terobot Reply #6, 14 years, 10 months ago

It works! Using

$username = $hook->getValue('username');

returns the username, whereas

$username = $hook->getValue('login.username');

returns nothing and

$username = $modx->user->get('username');

returns 'anonymous'.

What's bizarre is that the resulting snippet is virtually identical to Lucas' solution posted at http://tiny.cc/ex5tn which was the first thing I tried. Didn't work then, does now.

For anybody else reading this, the working snippet is:

<?php
$username = $hook->getValue('username');

$pageId = '163';
 
switch ($username) {
  case 'BOARD':
          $pageId = '164';
          break;
  case 'ZONE':
          $pageId = '165';
          break;
  case 'COMMITTEE':
          $pageId = '166';
          break;
}

$landingPage = $modx->makeUrl($pageId, "", "", 'full');
$modx->sendRedirect($landingPage);

Thanks Bob for taking the time to help me out with this. Incidentally, the tutorials on Bob's Guides were the first resources I read when considering switching to MODX Evo some years ago. It helped me set up my first test site, and you're still helping me out now! Much appreciated!

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BobRay Reply #7, 14 years, 10 months ago

I'm glad you got it working. Thanks for reporting back.

I don't know why $modx->user is the anonymous user. It's possible that that object just hasn't been updated yet at the point where a postHook runs.

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SyrahViognier Reply #8, 13 years, 10 months ago

Just want to thank #terobot and #BobRay for this : saved my bacon after having struggled to work this out myself. After reading this I got individual private member pages working beautifully.

Much respect to you both.

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Lee Reply #9, 13 years, 6 months ago

How would I do this if I want to redirect the user based on User Group? I have two User Groups with multiple users assign to each. I tried replacing username with userGroup, but it did not work.

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benmarte Reply #10, 13 years, 6 months ago

Lee I think you would need to use the isMember from the API to check if the user is part of a specific group and route them accordingly.

http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/modUser.isMember

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