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Joomla, custom redirection after sign in

When a user signs in in Joomla, he is automatically redirected at homepage.

This article explains you how to add a hack in Joomla 1.5, to redirect the user to the page of your choice after he signed in. It may be useful, especially if you want the user to do a specific action (e.g. : to post an article, a picture, subscribe to your services, etc.). From back-end, you may specify a Joomla! page for redirection, but no custom URL.

I used Joomla 1.5.8 for this example, but it should be the same pattern for every other J1.5.x version.

Open this file :

  1. [votre site]/components/com_user/controller.php

Look for this code line, that should be located at line 163, inside the login() function :

login() :

  1. $mainframe->redirect( $return );

All you have to do is to replace $return by the URL where you want users to be redirected. For instance :

  1. $mainframe->redirect( "http://www.guylabbe.ca" );

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Comments

by Miso — 2010-04-01

Thank you for this helpful

Thank you for this helpful post, I searched around and around for the solutetion and so happy to find your blog :)

by bob — 2009-12-07

i was happy to find this

i was happy to find this post...but this does not work when i tried it. I am trying to have user redirect to my custom page and not home page after they register.
Let me know if you have any suggestions.

by Guy Labbé — 2009-12-07

Hi, Thanks for you interest!

Hi, Thanks for you interest! Just type the URL of your custom page instead of current (home) URL, but I guest you may have already tried this :) If it doesn't work, would you post here your code please so we can have a look at it

by free mcdonalds coupons — 2009-09-13

Thanks much for this nice

Thanks much for this nice piece of text.

by Igor — 2009-05-06

in the login form module have

in the login form module have this option integrated.

by Guy Labbé — 2009-05-06

Yes but you must choose a

Yes but you must choose a "Joomla!" page, you can't write a custom URL.

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