drupal user login redirect

Question

hi i wrote a module for user page generation. After login the path goes to users/[user-name] and i want to customize it using my module. how to handle it?

Answer 1

You can use Login Toboggan to set a login destination. There are a few modules available for login redirecting without having to code.

To customize the look and feel of the user profile page, you can implement that through a TPL with CSS, or you can use Views to create Content Panes in conjunction with Panels, and override the user/% profile view.

Answer 2

With hook_form_alter you can create a submit handler for the login form, and in it set $form_state['redirect'] to where you want the user to be redirected to when the user logs in.