How to set "redirect" value

Hey there,

I just came accross PHORUM a few days ago, and I must say I'm rather impressed. It is the perfect tool for my current project!

Similar to this post [www.phorum.org] I am integrating the forum with a web site, but I have a different take as I thought it would actually be easier to use the PHORUM login sequence anyways since I wouldn't have to worry about setting the session cookie for Phorum (by letting Phorum take care of that).

So my take was to simpy change the redirect which is embeded in the login form.
Now, I realized I can't embed PHP into the template, as it doesn't seem to get parsed.
I guess what I am trying to find out is how to change/set the value of the redir field in the login template.

<input type="hidden" name="redir" value="{LOGIN->redir}" />

Again, first I thought to simply add PHP code to the template, something like

value="<?php if(isset($_GET['myownredirect'])
             {
               if ($_GET['myownredirect']=='foo')
                  echo "my/url/path";
             } else
             {
               echo '{LOGIN->redir}'
             } ?>" />

But that didn't seem to work. Is there any other way which would work better? When I "hardcode" my URL, it works like a dream, but that of course is impractical.

Where is {LOGIN->redir} being defined?
I thought once I know where, I could then try to figure out how to set it when called from a page from my web site (= outside of Phorum)

Any help is greatly appreaciated.

Anurag

PS: I don't think it is relevant information, but I am running PHP 5.1.2

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aji
So my take was to simpy change the redirect which is embeded in the login form. Now, I realized I can't embed PHP into the template, as it doesn't seem to get parsed.

Ah, but you can. PHP is allowed fully in the templates.

redir will be set based on the page that sends the user to the login page. Its purpose is to send them back to where they were.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/17/2006 12:32AM by brianlmoon.

Funny that it didn't work to add the php code in the login.tpl page.
I'll try again...

Was my method correct?

value="<?php if(isset($_GET['myownredirect'])
             {
               if ($_GET['myownredirect']=='foo')
                  echo "my/url/path";
             } else
             {
               echo '{LOGIN->redir}';
             } ?>" />

Question:

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redir will be set based on the page that sends the user to the login page. Its purpose is to send them back to where they were.

How does that work in detail? Bec, I could use same method in order to redirect back to my page...

Aji

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Why not?



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 08/17/2006 03:42PM by aji.

YOu can't echo {LOGING->redir}. You will need to stay with PHP there. $PHORUM["DATA"]["LOGIN"]["redir"].

Brian - Cowboy Ninja Coder - Personal Blog - Twitter

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brianlmoon
YOu can't echo {LOGING->redir}. You will need to stay with PHP there. $PHORUM["DATA"]["LOGIN"]["redir"].

That worked perfectly!

Thanks a lot,

Anurag

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Why not?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/18/2006 12:12AM by aji.

It sounds like I am trying to do exactly the same thing as above ... I basically have a non-forum page that I want users to be able to access, but before seeing it first they must log in (I was trying to conveniently use the forum loggin page and then redirect them).

From what i gathered above it seemed like something like this might work:

<input type="hidden" name="redir" value="<?php if(isset($_GET['myownredirect']))
             {
               if ($_GET['myownredirect']=='foo')
                  echo "[this_is_a_test.com"];;
             } else
             {
               echo '$PHORUM["DATA"]["LOGIN"]["redir"]'
             } ?>" />

I am sending the GET string right:

[mydomain]

I have had absoluty no luck ... I can't even figure out how to hard code the value to get it to redirect. It just goes straight to the page where I tried to log in from. Anyone who can offer me any advice/help it would be most greatly appricated!!

I have the same problem,
It worked for me to redirect to 'myownredirect=foo' but the $PHORUM["DATA"]["LOGIN"]["redir"] doesn't work it'll be jsut simply spit out as $PHORUM["DATA"]["LOGIN"]["redir"] and not as url in the HTML code.

Tino

Discover the Divine Truth | [www.discoverthedivinetruth.com]

I believe that you would need to write a little module that would set up the custom redirect.

From the login program

// By default, we redirect to the list page.

// The hook "after_login" can be used by module writers to
// set a custom redirect URL.
$redir =phorum_hook( "after_login", $redir );

Looking at the code above, it says:

  echo '$PHORUM["DATA"]["LOGIN"]["redir"]'

This is exactly the code that you need for spitting out that variable's name instead of its contents. Loose the single quotes to make PHP print the contents of the variable.

The correct syntax to use would be:

<input type="hidden" name="redir" value="<?php if(isset($_GET['myownredirect']))
             {
               if ($_GET['myownredirect']=='foo')
                  echo "[this_is_a_test.com"];;
             } else {
               echo $PHORUM["DATA"]["LOGIN"]["redir"];
             } ?>" />

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Maurice thanks a lot that did the trick for me except I removed the if(isset($_GET and if($_GET

honestly don't even knnow what theyare there for. The page I'm using the people come from a simple link and not a form not sure if I needed it, it didn't work anyway so I removed it.

mine looks like:

<input type="hidden" name="redir" value="<?php 
             
               if ($myownredirect=='foo')
             {
                  echo "[this_is_a_test.com"];;
             } else {
               echo $PHORUM["DATA"]["LOGIN"]["redir"];
             } ?>" />

that works perfectly - link would be [yoursite.com]

thanks for all the help
Tino

Discover the Divine Truth | [www.discoverthedivinetruth.com]



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/13/2007 11:28AM by DonTino.