i thought it was possible with this program that upon login, the user would be directed to a specific page. however, i am having difficulty making this happen. for example, upon login, if user bob is in accounting, it would take bob to the page of the site that is specific to that department, etc.

did i misunderstand the parameters of the program or is there a way to direct like this?

thanks.

if what i ask in the top thread is not possible, may i insert a login prompt on any page i wish, or is there only a default login page?

i like the groups function, but it is going to prove difficult for my application if there is no workaround. for instance, say i have a site that needs different levels of access to entire groups of pages or even subdomains, but i don't want to wait until they try to get there to give them a default login screen.

my scenario: preferrably, on the homepage, i would like there to be a login page whereby, someone enters in their username and their group is recognized and they are sent automatically to the group of pages relevant to them with full access rights.

now, i may wish to have each group of pages be different subdomains. will the mysql database of groups work across different subdomains relative to the root domain? if not, would i not worry about setting up multiple groups (except for admin and user) but instead create different mysql databases for each subdomain? this seems like a royal pain.

please tell me that there is an easier route. please tell me that i can direct each group to different pages upon their login from a main page. please tell me that the cookies would work across subdomains. there's got to be a way.

thanks for your help, bylla or anyone else with experience in this jungle.

Lets see if I can answer your questions.

It's not possible to "redirect" a user to a specific page after successfull login, but you can do something similar as the people asking for unique pages for each user. Read more about that at the following posts:
http://www.xavierforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=4044
http://www.xavierforum.com/archive/7_1519.php

You can get the users group id like this:
The above code can be used on any protected page you like and it's not the group name you get, it's the group id (like 5660GK).

Using the topics and the above code you get something like this:
Call the above code members.php or something like that and ask all members to login at that page.

You can of course also setup diffrent pages for each group like "accounting.php", "marketing.php", etc and ask the users to login directly at the diffrent pages. I think I read something that you didn't want it like that.

When you're talking about subdomains do you mean actual subdomains like demo1.sampleaddress.com and demo2.sampleaddress.com? Because then you should only change the cookie domain to .sampleaddress.com instead of sampleaddress.com. Then the users will be able to login at demo1.sampleaddress and visit pages at demo2.sampleaddress.com without login in again (if they have rights to access the pages on demo2.sampleaddress.com that is).