How To Change The Redirect For The Login Form

[Jake Bunce]

By default, vBulletin's login forms redirect you back to the page you were viewing. You can define your own redirection URL by adding this hidden field to the login form:

[color=red]<input type="hidden" name="url" value="[color=blue]REDIRECTION URL HERE[/color]" />[/color]

The login forms are in two main templates:

Navbar login form

Go to your:

Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> « » -> Navigation / Breadcrumb Templates -> navbar

Add the red code. Change the blue redirection URL appropriately:

		<!-- login form -->
		<form action="login.php" method="post" onsubmit="md5hash(vb_login_password, vb_login_md5password, vb_login_md5password_utf, $show[nopasswordempty])">
		<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_md5.js"></script>
		<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0">
		<tr>
			<td class="smallfont">$vbphrase[username]</td>
			<td><input type="text" class="bginput" style="font-size: 11px" name="vb_login_username" id="navbar_username" size="10" accesskey="u" tabindex="101" value="$vbphrase[username]" onfocus="if (this.value == '$vbphrase[username]') this.value = '';" /></td>
			<td class="smallfont" colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap"><label for="cb_cookieuser_navbar"><input type="checkbox" name="cookieuser" value="1" tabindex="103" id="cb_cookieuser_navbar" accesskey="c" />$vbphrase[remember_me]</label></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td class="smallfont">$vbphrase[password]</td>
			<td><input type="password" class="bginput" style="font-size: 11px" name="vb_login_password" size="10" accesskey="p" tabindex="102" /></td>
			<td><input type="submit" class="button" value="$vbphrase[log_in]" tabindex="104" title="$vbphrase[enter_username_to_login_or_register]" accesskey="s" /></td>
		</tr>
		</table>
		<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
		<input type="hidden" name="do" value="login" />		
		<input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password" />
		<input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password_utf" />
		[color=red]<input type="hidden" name="url" value="[color=blue]REDIRECTION URL HERE[/color]" />[/color]
		</form>
		<!-- / login form -->

Standard error login form

Go to your:

Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> « » -> STANDARD_ERROR and STANDARD_ERROR_LITE

The field is already there. Just replace $scriptpath with your redirection URL:

		<if condition="$show['permission_error']">		
			<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_md5.js"></script>
			<form action="login.php" method="post" onsubmit="md5hash(vb_login_password, vb_login_md5password, vb_login_md5password_utf, $show[nopasswordempty])">
			<input type="hidden" name="do" value="login" />
			<input type="hidden" name="url" value="[color=blue]$scriptpath[/color]" />
			<input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password" />
			<input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password_utf" />
			$postvars
	
			<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
		
			<!-- permission error message - user not logged in -->