Joomla Login redirection back to page to the previous page

php joomla joomla1.5
Abby picture Abby · Mar 29, 2011 · Viewed 7.9k times · Source

I have certain pages that require to a user to be logged in Joomla. When they click on the links to those pages a login box appears in an iframe overlay. Once they login, I want to redirect them back to the page they were trying to login to, however, Joomla seems to only allow a user to be redirected to a page that is predefined in the login form parameters. Is there a way to do this without completely hacking Joomla.

If not, does anyone have a recommendation on how to hack this an easy way.

Answer

Gaurav picture Gaurav · Mar 30, 2011

You can use like

$return = JURI::getInstance()->toString();
$url    = 'index.php?option=com_user&view=login';
$url   .= '&return='.base64_encode($return);
$this->setRedirect($url, XiText::_('YOU_MUST_LOGIN_FIRST'));  // if you are in controller

or 

JFactory::getApplication()->redirect($url, XiText::_('YOU_MUST_LOGIN_FIRST'));

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