userfrosting

Userfrosting: How to make user login automatically soon after registration

In our usecase, we need to login the user automatically soon after successful registration for enabling, rather forcing the user to:

  1. Change password.
  2. Upload a file.

How to achieve this programmatically, in AccountController's register method?

Ideally, it should be a seamless registration process that ends with the login state in the user dashboard.

Request valuable help / hint / pointers...

Thanks!

Solution

  • The best way to approach this is to take a cue from the password reset controller, which already does this (in this case, it automatically logs the user in after they've selected a new password).

    So, add this to the bottom of the register method in AccountController:

    // Log out any existing user, and create a new session
if (!$this->_app->user->isGuest()) {
    $this->_app->logout(true);
    // Restart session
    $this->_app->startSession();
}
// Auto-login the user
$this->_app->login($user);
$ms = $this->_app->alerts;
$ms->addMessageTranslated("success", "ACCOUNT_WELCOME", $this->_app->user->export());

    You will also need to modify the AJAX callback in register.twig to redirect the user to the home page, instead of the login page:

    window.location.replace(site['uri']['public']);

    The user will then be automatically redirected to the landing page for their primary group after being logged in.