Redirect customer after login in Magento

When customers sign in magento they will redirect to account’s dashbord page by default. There is no setting in magento which will let you to set your own landing page for customer after login. If you want to achieve this feature then you need to do some custom coding .

First step is, create a custom module “local/Intell/Customer” and override “AccountController” of core customer module to your custom module. Following will be the content of your module’s config.xml file (local/Intell/Customer/etc/config.xml):

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
<modules>
<Intell_Customer>
<version>1.1.0</version>
</Intell_Customer>
</modules>
<frontend>
<routers>
<customer>
<args>
<modules>
<intell_customer before="Mage_Customer">Intell_Customer</intell_customer>
</modules>
</args>
</customer>
</routers>
</frontend>
<global>
<helpers>
<intell>
<class>Intell_Customer_Helper</class>
</intell>
</helpers>
</global>
</config>

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Controller function responsible for customer redirection after login is “_loginPostRedirect “. Override this function to your custom account controller. Following is the code of custom account controller (local/Intell/Customer/controllers/AccountController.php). In this code “$customerRedirectUrl ” contains yourcustom page url :

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<?php
require_once ‘Mage/Customer/controllers/AccountController.php’;
class Intell_Customer_AccountController extends Mage_Customer_AccountController
{
protected function _loginPostRedirect()
{
//customer session
$session = $this->_getSession();
$preUrl = $session->getBeforeAuthUrl(true);
$cusromerRedirectStatus = 1;
//your custom url
$customerRedirectUrl = "customer/address/new";
$redirectUrl = $preUrl;
if(($cusromerRedirectStatus) && ($customerRedirectUrl) && ($session->getCustomerRedirectFlag()) && (strpos($preUrl, ‘checkout/onepage’) == ”)){
$redirectUrl = Mage::getUrl().$customerRedirectUrl;
}
if(($cusromerRedirectStatus) && ($customerRedirectUrl)){
$redirectUrl = Mage::getUrl().$customerRedirectUrl;
}
if ($this->_getSession()->isLoggedIn()) {
$this->_redirectUrl($redirectUrl);
return;
}
$this->_redirectUrl($preUrl);
}
}

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Last step is, create a helper (local/Intell/Customer/Helper/Data.php) :

[php]
<?php
class Intell_Customer_Helper_Data extends Mage_Core_Helper_Abstract
{
}

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And yes, add your module’s pool file in app/etc/modules

That’s it. Hope this will help you.

Regards,
Amatya Trivedi
amatya@intelligrape.com