drupal user login redirect

Question

hi i wrote a module for user page generation. After login the path goes to users/[user-name] and i want to customize it using my module. how to handle it?

Answer 1

With hook_form_alter you can create a submit handler for the login form, and in it set $form_state['redirect'] to where you want the user to be redirected to when the user logs in.

Answer 2

You can implement a hook_user fonction like this

function mymodule_user($op, &$edit, &$account, $category=NULL) {
 switch ($op) {
  case 'login':  // user just logs in...
                        // Modify $_REQUEST['destination'];
                        // but no drupal_goto in order 
                        // to avoid problem with other hook
   break;
 }
}

More here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoeFTr124jw

Answer 3

You can use Login Toboggan to set a login destination. There are a few modules available for login redirecting without having to code.

To customize the look and feel of the user profile page, you can implement that through a TPL with CSS, or you can use Views to create Content Panes in conjunction with Panels, and override the user/% profile view.