Do you get redirected when visiting the Login page or after the member has logged in?

How does your controller look like?

Normally I would save the url from which the user was redirected to login in a hidden field of my form and after sucessfull login redirect to the url of that page.

Sorry, other projects drew my attention for a bit.

Anyway, the moment I hit the login button, I get logged in and redirected to the homepage. As for the controIer I am using, it's one supplied by Umbraco. This is the entire view (it's the default code you get when selecting login template when creating a partial view in the settings section):

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage

@using System.Web.Mvc.Html
@using ClientDependency.Core.Mvc
@using Umbraco.Web
@using Umbraco.Web.Models
@using Umbraco.Web.Controllers


    @{
        var loginModel = new LoginModel();

        Html.EnableClientValidation();
        Html.EnableUnobtrusiveJavaScript();
        Html.RequiresJs("/umbraco_client/ui/jquery.js");
        Html.RequiresJs("/umbraco_client/Application/JQuery/jquery.validate.min.js");
        Html.RequiresJs("/umbraco_client/Application/JQuery/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js");
    }

    @Html.RenderJsHere()

    @using (Html.BeginUmbracoForm<UmbLoginController>("HandleLogin"))
    {
        <fieldset>
            <legend>Login</legend>

            @Html.ValidationSummary(true)

            @Html.LabelFor(m => loginModel.Username)
            @Html.TextBoxFor(m => loginModel.Username)
            @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => loginModel.Username)
            <br />

            @Html.LabelFor(m => loginModel.Password)
            @Html.PasswordFor(m => loginModel.Password)
            @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => loginModel.Password)
            <br />

            <button>Login</button>
        </fieldset>
    }

So yeah, the controller "UmbLoginController" is the controller I am using, but I do not know what the code looks like.

Ok had a small look at the Umbraco source.

The UmbLoginController just redirects your member to the homepage.

Seems there is no way to change this behavior. So if you want more controller over this you have to implement the login on your own. Would recommend to have a look at Warren Buckleys package which is also available from nuget.

My colleague and I just came to the same conclusion and decided to go implement our own controller. Thanks for the suggestion though.

-Ferdy

Sorry for the double post, but I wanted to add an additional question.

I have the following model:

public class BmMemberModel
    {
        [Required]
        public string Username { get; set; }
        
        [Required]
        public string Password { get; set; }

        public string loginRedirectUrl { get; set; }

        public string logoutRedirectUrl { get; set; }
    }

And the following Controller:

public class BmMemberSurfaceController : SurfaceController
    {
        [HttpPost]
        public ActionResult MemberLogin([Bind(Prefix = "BmMemberModel")]BmMemberModel model)
        {
            if (ModelState.IsValid)
            {
                var m = Member.GetMemberFromLoginNameAndPassword(model.Username, model.Password);
                if (m != null)
                    Member.AddMemberToCache(m);
            }

            return CurrentUmbracoPage();         
        }
    }

And finally, my view:

{
     var memberModel = new BmMemberModel();
}
@using (Html.BeginUmbracoForm<BmMemberSurfaceController>("MemberLogin"))
{
    memberModel.loginRedirectUrl = "";
        
    <fieldset>
        <legend>Login</legend>

        @Html.ValidationSummary(true)

        @Html.LabelFor(m => memberModel.Username)
        @Html.TextBoxFor(m => memberModel.Username)
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => memberModel.Username)
        <br />

        @Html.LabelFor(m => memberModel.Password)
        @Html.PasswordFor(m => memberModel.Password)
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => memberModel.Password)
        <br />

        <button>Login</button>
    </fieldset>
}

Now, I am still somewhat new to the whole MVC thing, so maybe I am missing something obvious. But, whenever I hit submit, the model I get back is NULL and gives null reference exceptions in my controller. But, I kinda just changed the names of the version that is in Umbraco.

What am I doing wrong/missing?

-Ferdy

Okay, I figured out my problem! With the examples I read, it said that

[Bind(Prefix="BmMemberModel")]

would give all the elements in the form the prefix "BmMemberModel". This was wrong as I now found it. It means that it will only react to fields prefixed with "BmMemberModel". To get the fields prefixed, I just need to name the Model on the page "BmMemberModel".

Sorry if this is obvious or anything, but like I said, I am pretty new to the whole MVC thing and it threw me for quite a loop!

-Ferdy

Glad you solved your problem.

Haven't used the [Bind]-thing before. New to me and don't know why you should use it. Will have a read on it.

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