Redirect to module after login Yii

Question

Building a site in yii, where there are 3 types of users. In the UserIdentity::authenticate() I set the type of user like this. $this->setState('role', $user->role->id); Depending on this type, i want to redirect to a module belonging to this type of user. To be more specific; if Yii::app()->user->role == 3 I want to redirect to the default page of the module called 'tradesman'. This is what I got in SiteController::actionLogin():

/**
 * Displays the login page
 */
public function actionLogin()
{
    $model=new LoginForm;
    // if it is ajax validation request
    if(isset($_POST['ajax']) && $_POST['ajax']==='login-form')
    {
        echo CActiveForm::validate($model);
        Yii::app()->end();
    }

    // collect user input data
    if(isset($_POST['LoginForm']))
    {
        $model->attributes=$_POST['LoginForm'];
        // validate user input and redirect to the previous page if valid
        if($model->validate() && $model->login()){
            switch(Yii::app()->user->role){
                case 3:
                    $this->redirect(Yii::app()->controller->module->tradesman);
                    break;
                default:
                    $this->redirect(Yii::app()->user->returnUrl);
            }
        }
    }
    // display the login form
    $this->render('login',array('model'=>$model));
}

The redirect to the module doesn't work this way. I'am getting the Php notice 'Trying to get property of non-object'. I've then made a method 'defaultUrl in the TradesmanModule which returns Yii::app()->createUrl($this->getId() . '/default/index'); . I tried to redirect to Yii::app()->controller->module->defaultUrl , but the result was the same.

I also tried $this->redirect('tradesman/default/index'); & $this->redirect('application.modules.tradesman'); but then i'am getting a 404 error saying 'The system is unable to find the requested action "tradesman".'.

If I am logged in as a user with role 3, and I navigate to the default url of the module, it does work. But how can i redirect?

Answer 1

Try $this->redirect('/tradesman/default/index') and make sure that in module exists DefaultController and it's action actionIndex

UPDATED:
@Николай Конев is right, it's just redirects to the url /tradesman/default/index , not route. For redirecting by route:

 $this->redirect( array('/tradesman/default/index') ) 

it's absolute route to module tradesman , controller default and action index . If you want redirects to controller in the same module you may use this code:

 $this->redirect( array('default/index') ) 

And if you want redirects to the main application controllers you need to use:

 $this->redirect( array('/default/index') ) // with "/" at the beginning 

Thanks to @Николай Конев again

Answer 2

To ensure route is working, you have to pass array to CController::redirect() :

    // for example
    $this->redirect(['/route/starts/from/slash']);
    // your case
    $this->redirect(['/tradesman/default/index']);

In other case you will have redirect broken on url rules change.