easy authentication and authorization question

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi

I have a easy question for you.

I am just starting to use the yiiframework and I am currently working on logging, authentication and authorization. My questions are.

Questions one.

Each time I log in I get taken to the home page again, Now do I change this so I get redirected to another paged eg setting.php.

Question two.

If a user is logged in and wants to go to another page within the "loggedin only" pages eg setting_2.php How do i check the users authentication and authorization.

As I said before these are two easy question but all the exmaples I have seen do not seem to explain it clearly.

Thanks

2

in your controller, use something like this this




$this->redirect(array('/user/settings'));

For Question 2. I recommend you to read the rbac section on the Yii Guide

3

Check the SiteController.php in the default yii webapp. It contains this line, which is executed after successful login:




       	if($model->validate() && $model->login())

                $this->redirect(Yii::app()->user->returnUrl);

This will redirect the user back to the action that required a login. To do so you don’t necessarily need RBAC. You can do like this:




public function actionSomething() {

    if (Yii::app()->user->isGuest)

        Yii::app()-user->loginRequired();


    // The code hereafter will only execute after login

}
4

Thanks sumwai and mike, that works great.