How do you get Drupal to go to a page other than the User Profile on login?

Question

ISSUE: Please help, I've tried a few things to get Drupal to STOP going to the User Prolfile page on login, even installed a module called LoginToboggan; which has nice features, just doesn't stop Drupal from sending all users that login to their User Profile page. Just to be clear, LoginToboggan's "optionally redirect [of] the user to a specific page when using the 'immediate login' feature" -- is ONLY for new users, not existing users... Yes, I know, makes no sense.

GOAL: Just need to be able to set the login page; don't need to set the page load based on role, but hey, that would be nice if it's not crazy complex.

Related Links:

• Drupal

• LoginToboggan

UPDATE: Figured out a fix based on my needs, see my answer below. Please feel free to comment, and/or post another answer. Thanks!

Answer 1

You can:

• Use the Login Destination module.
• Let your users login at www.example.com/user?destination=some/path. This will redirect them to www.example.com/some/path after submitting the form.
• Write a custom module, implementing hook_form_alter. It's explained here: http://drupal.org/node/236234.

Answer 2

Figured it out. So, you:

SETTING IT UP:

1. Create a PAGE,
2. Have the default login module ONLY display on the PAGE using the BLOCK config settings.
3. On load have BLOCKS set to ONLY display content to users of that ROLE.

ISSUES: Down side is that a user that has NOT logged in will see the page TITLE, and a user that is able to login will see the same page TITLE.

Please comment if that doesn't make sense, OR post another answer if there's a better solution. Thanks!!

Answer 3

I have heard that several people use the rules module to direct people to different pages on login, dependent upon their role, or just to do a general redirect to the page the person logged in from.

http://drupal.org/project/rules