Question

i want to change default action of a controller depends on which user is logged in.
Ex. There are two users in my site : publisher and author and i want to set publisher action as default action when a publisher is logged in, and same for author.

what should i do? when can I check my roles and set their relevant actions?

Answer 1

Another way to do this would be setting the defaultAction property in your controller’s init() method. Somewhat like this:

<?php
class MyAwesomeController extends Controller{ // or extends CController depending on your code
    public function init(){
        parent::init(); // no need for this call if you don't have anything in your parent init() 

        if(array_key_exists('RolePublisher', Yii::app()->authManager->getRoles(Yii::app()->user->id)))
            $this->defaultAction='publisher'; // name of your action

        else if (array_key_exists('RoleAuthor', Yii::app()->authManager->getRoles(Yii::app()->user->id)))
            $this->defaultAction='author'; // name of your action
    }
    // ... rest of your code
}
?>

Check out CAuthManager’s getRoles(), to see that the returned array will have format of 'role'=>CAuthItem object, which is why i’m checking with array_key_exists().

Incase you don’t know, the action name will be only the name without the action part, for example if you have public function actionPublisher(){...} then action name should be: publisher.