I have created a custom form for login page. When a user logs in, I want to redirect the user to some other page, different from user/<user_name>
.
How can I perform such redirect?
You can use the Rules module.
Example use cases
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To use that go to admin/config/workflow/rules/reaction/import
and import this
it will redirect user to admin/dashboard
path after user logged in :
{ "rules_redirect_after_login" : {
"LABEL" : "redirect after login",
"PLUGIN" : "reaction rule",
"OWNER" : "rules",
"REQUIRES" : [ "rules" ],
"ON" : { "user_login" : [] },
"DO" : [ { "redirect" : { "url" : "admin\/dashboard" } } ]
}
}
You may also build a custom module and use hook_user_login and do something on the lines of :
function hook_user_login(&$edit, $account) {
$_GET['destination'] = 'node/25';
}
You and also use the Login Destination module and in the config set the redirect.
The Login Destination module allows you to customize the destination that a user is redirected to after logging in, registering to the site (7.x), using a one-time login link or logging out (7.x). The destination can be an internal page or an external URL. It is possible to specify certain conditions like referring pages or user roles and make the destination depend upon them. You may use PHP snippets to provide custom conditions and destinations. It is also possible to keep users on the currently visited page after logging in or out.