Getting where you want to go in Drupal

Submitted by Sam Rose on Sat, 02/14/2009 - 06:15

The following information applies to Drupal 5.x

If you are working with a protected site, using http://drupal.org/project/login_destination module is a good way to create a logic system for routing users.

In my case, I needed people to get to where they were trying to go in the first place when logging in.

For instance, if a user visits example.com/blog, and is prompted to login first, then I want them to arrive at *exactly* example.com/blog after they successfully login.

So, http://drupal.org/project/login_destination provides this functionality.

There are 2 settings that you should configure in php snippet mode:

First is URL Destination Settings:

global $user;
 
if (substr($_SESSION['login_redirect'],0,4) != 'user') {
   return $_SESSION['login_redirect'];
}
else {
   return '<front>';
}

Second is Redirect condition settings:

if ($_REQUEST['destination'] != 'login_redirect') {
    $_SESSION['login_redirect'] = $_REQUEST['destination'] != '' ? $_REQUEST['destination'] : $_SESSION['login_page'];
}
return TRUE;

It is "$_SESSION['login_redirect']" that holds the data needed to get users to their desired destination.