Question

I’m migrating quite a large community to symfony2. The current user table contains a lot of users with non-alphanumeric chars in the username. In the new version I only allow [a-zA-Z0-9-] for benefits like semantic URLs for each user.

Is it possible to catch users who log in with email/pass and have no username set? I would like them to redirect to a page where they will be able to re-pick a username. The tricky part: they should not be able to touch anything on the site unless they have a correct username.

I thought about a event, from the fosuserbundle but I couldn’t find a suitable one.

Answer 1

You could use events. See an example here: http://symfony.com/doc/2.0/cookbook/event_dispatcher/before_after_filters.html

Of course the action changing the username should be ignored by the event listener. Just like login and other anonymous actions.

You can return any response, including a redirect, by setting response on an event.