User redirect after login based on role

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1

Hello,

how do I get the user role to pass to the controller to set the redirect to the individual section of the site??

public function login() {

    $this->request->allowMethod(['get', 'post']);

    $result = $this->Authentication->getResult();

    

    // regardless of POST or GET, redirect if user is logged in

    if ($result->isValid()) {

        // redirect to /articles after login success

        if ($role == 1) :

        $redirect = $this->request->getQuery('redirect', [

            'controller' => 'Admin',

            'action' => 'index',

        ]);

         elseif ($role == 2) :

            $redirect = $this->request->getQuery('redirect', [

                'controller' => 'Dashboard',

                'action' => 'index',

            ]);

            endif;

        return $this->redirect($redirect);

    }

    // display error if user submitted and authentication failed

    if ($this->request->is('post') && !$result->isValid()) {

        $this->Flash->error(__('Invalid username or password'));

    }

}

Regards

2

You get the identity object and look up the role in that.

3

@Zuluru

This is completely doing my head in! after reading the link, my take on it is as follows:

App>src>Model Entity/User.php add the following:

use Authentication\IdentityInterface;

class User extends Entity implements IdentityInterface
{
        /**
         * Authentication\IdentityInterface method
         */
        public function getIdentifier()
        {
            return $this->role; // field in the user table                
        }

In App>src>Controller>UserController.php

public function login()
{
    $authentication = $this->request->getAttribute('authentication');
    $result = $authentication->getResult(); 
    if ($result->isValid()) {
        if ($authentication->identifiers()->get('role')) {
            $role = (1); #not sure if it's called this way
            $redirect = $this->request->getQuery('redirect', [
             'controller' => 'Dashboard',
                'action' => 'index',
            ]);
        }

        if ($authentication->identifiers()->get('role')) {

            $user->role = (2); #not sure if it's called this way either??
            $redirect = $this->request->getQuery('redirect', [
             'controller' => 'Partners',
                'action' => 'index',

            ]);

        }

        return $this->redirect($redirect);
    }
      // display error if user submitted and authentication failed
      if ($this->request->is('post') && !$result->isValid()) {
        $this->Flash->error(__('Invalid username or password'));
    }
}

not entirely sure how to write that bit, which ever way I try to write it, I get the error of Unknown object “role”

Regards

Mal