Login Question

Hello,

My pages are working just fine but I want to improve the work flow. Right now I have two login pages. One for visitors shopping (login -> goes to checkout) and one for visitors wanting to change their profile (login -> goes to users_profile.php).

Is there a way to have one loging page and if visitors are shopping they are asked to login and redirected to the checkout page. With the same login page if they are NOT shopping they click on My Account and -> login and they either go back to the previous page and on top of the page they will have link yo Update their profile and logout?

Do I have have two login pages i order to accomplish that?

Thank you.

In the authenticate user behavior, there is a checkbox option to goto the previous page if it exists.

That setting uses a URL Variable named accesscheck. you can for the login success URL by setting the Accesscheck URL variable to contain the page location.

for example, to force the redirect to go to the checkout page, set the link to the login page as:
<a href="login.php?accesscheck=/checkout.php">Login</a>

Thank you Jason,

Right the login page is set to redirect this way because the checkout page forces user to login/register before proceeding:

"successRedirect" => "checkout.php?loggedIn=1",
"failRedirect" => "users_login.php?failedLogin=1",
"gotoPreviousURL" => TRUE,
"keepQueryString" => TRUE

as you can see gotoPrevious is also set. This set up goes directly to checkout and this is good so far.

If use the same loging page for the users who are not buying anything how should I go about it with the given set-up.

Thank you

set the success redirect to go to the page you want to load _if the person is not going through the checkout_


the restriction on the checkout page will automatically bass the access check variable to over ride the redirect and use the checkout page instead.

OK.

In this case I should remove "successRedirect" => "checkout.php?loggedIn=1", and let the "gotoPreviousURL" => TRUE, to take over. I am understanding you correctly? If they are going trough checkout the check out page will check and if they are login it will proceed if not it will kick in the login page.

Thank you

set the success redirect to the profile page and make sure the Go To Orevious URL is set to true.

Thank you. I will try that.