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I am wanting to allow users select their own start page after signing in.

Instead of redirecting to index.php, they can select from a list of pages in a table and save their preference so that when they log in, they are automatically redirected to that page.

I am wondering if the _global.php hooks file could be utilized and modify this code with if statements.

Hi,

yes you can use something like this pseudocode.

function login_ok($memberInfo, &$args){

catch USERPAGE for $memberInfo['username'] // maybe via an sql query from a config table.
redirect("USERPAGE");
}

Thanks for the reply.

I'm a bit of a hack and not an expert. Any ideas on how to implement this?

Hi,

the question is, how would you let the user decide which page to start with.

Hi,

I was thinking of creating a table which the user can select from a drop down list of the main table view tables. I might be making things more difficult than they need to be?

Hi bruce,

I would think it's a good idea (creating a table to choose from). That should be able to handle all future changes on your application.

Olaf

Hi,

so fi you have your table (lets assume it is called "USERHOME" and within this table you have a field called "HOMEPAGE" and you user the
memeberID as matching key.

You could do:
HOMEPAGE needs to be set to the url you want the user to be redirected to.

Hi pbötcher,

thanks for the code.
Olaf

Hi pbötcher,
little bug(s) in your code. Probably should be ... Actually it seems wise to have one table for usersettings and another for possible startpages. In this case - of course, the SQL would be different, something like this: Olaf

Hi pbötcher and Olaf,

I will try this out, hopefully on the weekend, and let you both know how I went.

Hi Olaf,

I have set up the tables (as per your second suggestion) as shown in the attached image, but I am confused where I go from here. How do I allow each user to select just one page to be redirected to?

Hi bruceholt,

actually, at this time the regular "user" can not access this table, only admins can. If you want the user to be able to change this, I suggest that ID_Usersettings (which holds the memberID = loginname of the user) is set to readonly and autofill with username.

The problem in my setting is, that ID_Usersettings is a textfield, not a dropdown (which reads all usernames from the member_users table). Unfortunately it seems to be impossible to use AG internal tools to receive a memberlist from there and easily fill it into something else. There is probably a possibility, but not a very easy one I believe.

The ID_StpageTxt pulls a 2nd column from the startpage table which contains a "cleartext" name of the page to go to "Main", "Tools" ... and, to finally answer your question: Of course each user can have only one page to be forwarded to after login. Either "Main" or "Tools" or ...

More questions? Shoot.
Olaf

Hi,
forgot. In AG it seem "impossible" to create 1:1 relations between tables (I myself had a question about this a couple days ago).
If you create this table and give users access to it, maybe prepare it for each user (using some SQL somewhere else to fill in default values). Then, you give edit right to the users only for their own records (where you need to make sure, that each record is being connected to it's use, again by SQL somewhere automatically).
You could also try pbötchers suggestion ( viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3059&p=10176#p10172 ) and transform this to startpage (in the thread it's about user specific language. By now I added a language field to my Usersettings table. I can have as many user specific settings as I want to this way).

Olaf

Thanks very much Olaf, I really appreciate your help. I'll keep playing around and see how I go with it.