Is it possible to redirect a admin user to a specific component after login?

Question

Not too much else to add to the question really, I'm trying to redirect a specific user group to a specific area after they log in to the administrator back-end, but I'm not sure if this is possible.

While somewhat of a separate goal, I also want to hide the admin menu.

Answer 1

You could create a small plugin to perform the redirect. Here's something I've quickly mocked up:

class plgSystemMYPLUGIN extends JPlugin
{

    public function onUserAfterLogin()
    {
        $app = JFactory::getApplication();

        if ($app->isAdmin()) 
        {
            $user   = JFactory::getUser();
            $groups = $user->get('groups');

            $groups_to_redirect = array('13', '10');

            if (in_array($groups[0], $groups_to_redirect))
            {
                $url = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_hellowworld');
                $app->redirect($url);
            }           
        }
    }

}

I've used 10 and 13 as example user group ID's, so you would have to change them to whatever suits your needs.

Please also note I haven't tested this, but hope it points you in the right direction

Answer 2

How about that extension? I'd used it before when i needed to redirect users to specified direction :

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension/access-a-security/site-access/redirect-on-login

Answer 3

Its Just short cut method in 3.x

Open Path in Joomla plugins\authentication\cookie\cookie.php

In function onUserAfterLogin($options),

        $user   = JFactory::getUser();
        $groups = $user->get('groups');

            if(in_array(10, $groups)) 
            {
             $url = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_students');
             $this->app->redirect($url);
            }