Magento redirect after logout

Question

how can I redirect the customers after logout to default store view in magento? In logout I redirect them another store view.

Answer 1

I know it's not elegant, but the easiest method I have found is to copy and modify the template file at app/design/frontend/base/default/template/customer/logout.phtml to your own theme directory.

Specifically this line:

<p><?php echo Mage::helper('customer')->__('You have logged out and will be redirected to our homepage in 5 seconds.') ?></p>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
    setTimeout(function(){ location.href = '<?php echo $this->getUrl() ?>'},5000);
//]]>
</script>

By modifying location.href url and even the timeout you can point the user to anywhere just after logout. E.g.:

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
    setTimeout(function(){ location.href = '<?php echo $this->getUrl('*/*/login') ?>'},500);
//]]>
</script>

Again, it's not elegant, but it should be a quick enough redirect that the quick hop on the page will then shove them to another url, in the above example, back to the login screen.

Answer 2

Unfortunately there's not a convenient event hook to manipulate the logout redirect location.

Mage_Customer_AccountController::logoutAction() sets a redirect to ::logoutSuccessAction() on the response object after the customer_logout event is dispatched, and it's the rendering of the customer/logout.phtml template which uses PHP to set echo a javascript param to redirect to the homepage with no OOB possibility to pass an arg for an alternate JS-based redirect.

I think the cleanest solution would be to observe controller_action_postdispatch_customer_account_logout, grab the controller object, and overwrite the location header using the response object's setRedirectWithCookieCheck() method:

public function logoutRedirect($obs)
{
    $obs->getControllerAction()
        ->setRedirectWithCookieCheck(/* your URL param(s) */);
}