Cakephp Auth->loginredirect Problems

Question

i have made a simple cakephp application . at the moment i am just working with auth component to send user to their respective pages according to their. for ex if role =1 send to admin page and else if role = 2 send it to moderator page . i am using both session and auth component to see how they work and save data in them. below is the code for usercontroller login action

public function login(){

$this->Session->setFlash($this->Auth->user('role'));//checks for data in auth component if any



    if($this->request->is('post') ){


         $results = $this->User->findByEmail($this->request->data['User']['username']);
        if($results &&$results['User']['password']== md5($this->request->data['User']['password']))
        {
            $this->Session->write('user',$results['User']);
            $this->Auth->login($results['User']);
            $this->Session->setFlash('User logged in successfully'.$this->Auth->user('role'));
            return $this->redirect($this->Auth->redirect());
        }
        else
        {
            $this->Session->setFlash('Login is incorrect');
        }
    }


}

The problem is the login works fine all the data is stored in session and auth variable but loginredirect behave weird. in my chrome browser . it always redirects to admin page no matter what the role is , but it is flashing correct message which i set in flash. the code of beforefilter in appcontroller

public function beforeFilter(){

    $this->Auth->allow('display'); 

    $this->Auth->loginAction = array('controller' => 'Users', 'action' => 'login');

    $this->Auth->logoutRedirect = array('controller' => 'Users', 'action' => 'login');

    if($this->Auth->user('role') == '1'){
            $this->Session->setFlash($this->Auth->user('role').'adminnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn');
    $this->Auth->loginRedirect = '/admins/index';
    }

    if($this->Auth->user('role') == '2'){
        $this->Session->setFlash('moderatorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr');
        $this->Auth->loginRedirect = '/users/index';
    }
}

so the problem is the loop runs fine in before filter , the setflash display whether user is admin or moderator , but for some reason it redirects to only single page either admins/index page or users/index page no matter who logs in . This is behavior on chrome browser. On firefox the loginredirects sends user to webroot/index page but again the flash messages are correct.

I am not sure what i am doing wrong is there a problem in my code or cakephp 2.0 auth component has measure bugs.

for the time being i am using loginredirect to a function called dashboard which take care of routing So after user logs in it gets redirected via Auth->loginRedirect to dashboard() and here i check users role and use redirect to send particular user to the exact location. I am not sure whether its correct way to do things but it works. Can anyone tell if this solution is safe enough as i am not using auth redirects ? Thanks — Ravi Jadhav
this is the code function dashboard() { //$role = $this->Session->read('user.role'); $role=$this->Auth->user('role'); //user selection logic here if($role== '1'){ $this->redirect(array('controller' => 'Admins','action' => 'index','admin' => true)); } else if($role == '2'){ $this->redirect(array('controller' => 'users','action' => 'index', 'admin' => true)); } else if($role == '9'){ $this->redirect(array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'index', 'admin' => true)); $this->Session->setFlash('3'); } } — Ravi Jadhav

Ravi Jadhav Ravi Jadhav · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-15T14:37:36

after user logs in it gets redirected via Auth->loginRedirect to dashboard() and here i check users role and use redirect to send particular user to the exact location

  function dashboard() {
  //get user's group (role)
    //$role = $this->Session->read('user.role');
    $role=$this->Auth->user('role');
        //user selection logic here
    if($role== '1'){
        $this->redirect(array('controller' => 'users','action' => 'admin_index','admin' => false));

    }
    else if($role == '2'){
        $this->redirect(array('controller' => 'users','action' => 'admin_index', 'admin' => false));

    }
    else if($role == '9'){
        $this->redirect(array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'index', 'admin' => false));
        $this->Session->setFlash('3');
    }

   }

This is just another way to work things out i included the dashboard function in my users controller and did auth login redirect to this function from appcontroller. Hope it solves problem for others who are facing the issue. Thanks

Cakephp Auth->loginredirect Problems

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