very useful

thank you for sharing -- good work.

Diane, thanks for sharing....great!

Hello, I am just landing here for the firs time.

This is a good tip. I suppose it is also possible to ban completely the custom dashboard and replace it with a common page for all members. Do you know how?

Thanks in advance!

Is there a way to redirect someone who has registered successfully to an external html page instead of back to the log in page I tried to put the URL (in register.php) in the forward  () as in forward (http://mysite.com/myexternalpage.html) But the page wouldn't display all I get is a blank screen so I've changed it back I need to do this as I'm working with kids and I need to explain in a bit more graphical detail about validating their e-mail as I am getting a 50% drop out rate from total to active and I believe this figure is created by not validating their e-mail address correct me if I'm wrong)

Any help is much appreciated

Re my above post I have this answer from the elgg google group see the thread here if anyone else is looking

http://groups.google.com/group/elgg-users/browse_thread/thread/4956de01f639dfe0 

antifmradio

 I just saw this thanks The problem with this method although very useful to others is that I am running the no public with feeds plugin which I think would prevent anyone not logged in to view the page I have just moved to 1.5 and will probably look at this again later this week

i developed a small plugin that allows redirection to the profile instead of the dasboard. After i published it i read about it here on the forum.

How to redirect to profile page after login (default landing page)

How Do I in Elgg 1.8?

If you define this function:

function YOURPLUGINNAME_hook_forward_system($hook, $type, $returnvalue, $params)
{
    $message = system_messages();
    if (isset($message['success']) && array_pop($message['success']) == elgg_echo('loginok'))
    {
        return elgg_get_site_url() . '/WHATEVERURL'; // replace this
    }
    
    return $returnvalue;
}

and register the following during your plugin init:

elgg_register_plugin_hook_handler('forward', 'system', 'nucleus_hook_forward_system');

that should do it..

Never mind -- DO NOT use the solution above as it will cause issues (it will clear your system messages..).

One way to fix this would be to restore the messages by calling system_message($message); inside the if clause, but that's getting quite messy..