Redirect page after login in Yii framework

Question

I am newbie to the Yii Framework. In Yii when you login by default it redirects to the index page. I want that when I will login to Yii the page will redirect to another page not the index page. So can anyone help me in this. Any help or suggestions will be highly appreciable.

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how the redirect will work when I will use user module as after login the page is redirected towards profile page?

Answer 1

You can (and indeed, must, if any redirection is going to take place) specify the URL to redirect to inside your controller's actionLogin method. After a successful login, you will see something like this code:

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

Change this to any parameter that the CController::redirect method supports, and you can control where the user is redirected after login.

As an aside, using Yii::app()->user->returnUrl enables the redirect page to return the user back to the URL they intended to visit before being redirected to the login page.