Question

I am using acl and I want to redirect the users based on which group they are from

in my appcaontroller I have this

public function beforeFilter() {
                                //Configure AuthComponent
                                //$this->Auth->allow('display');
                                $this->Auth->loginAction = array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'login');
                                $this->Auth->logoutRedirect = array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'login');
                                $this->Auth->loginRedirect = array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'add');
    }

what should I do so if the user is from group_id 1, he/she should be redirected to a place different than group_id = 4 etc

thanks

Answer 1

Okay so for example you are redirecting every user to an action say dashboard. Instead of redirecting the user to add action of posts controller redirect to dashboard of users controller. I am assuming you have another table for groups and you are keeping it’s foreign key in users table.

    $this->Auth->loginRedirect = array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'dashboard');

The above will redirect user upon login to dashboard action in users controller. Now to take every user to a specific group, get the group name of user and redirect to specific page.

  function dashboard() {
      //get user's group (role)
    $group_name = $this->User->Group->field('name', array('id' => $this->Auth->User('group_id')));
    //group selection logic here
    $action = 'dashboard_' . $group_name;
    $this->redirect('controller' => 'users' => 'action' => $action);
  }

So the above code will take every user to specific action e.g. if group name is ‘managers’ user will be redirected to ‘managers_dashboard’.