Different Roles for 2 different type user in Drupal

Question

I have to 2 different roles setuped in drupal.

1) Backend Users 2) Authenticate Users

Backend Users I want backend users to be redirected to admin section (were all admin related work is done)

Authenticate Users Authenticate users to be redirected to front page.

What is best way to achieve this.

Answer 1

You have more than one choice.

There are several contrib modules that can achieve this functionality. On one of my production sites I use with satisfaction login destination, as it allows to include PHP logic to decide where to redirect the user.

If you are already writing some code, though, you could to implement this behavior programmatically (this is surely lighter on the system than a fully-featured module), by implementing hook_user() and defining a case for $op == 'login': you could then use drupal_goto() to give the address of the page you want the user to be redirected according to her/his roles.

HTH!

Answer 2

try 'login toboggan', it is a module that has that funcionality built in. http://drupal.org/project/logintoboggan