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I have a login form on a page that should log a member in to their account and return their member id in the url. I have the form set up like this:
{exp:member:login_form return="user/files/{logged_in_member_id}/”}
The problem is that the {logged_in_member_id} is only returning 0 in the url segment. Everything seems to be working except that.
I’m using this member id to filter out entries by only that member on the page.

Any ideas?

Are you using the exp:channel:entries tag to display their entries?

Once they’re logged in, you should be able to get their member_id, it is a global variable, for more info http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/templates/globals/single_variables.html#member-id

You could pass the variable into the author_id parameter, like

{exp:channel:entries author_id="{member_id}"}

Yes. I am loading entries from the exp:channel:entries. That doesnt seem to be the problem though. I have another link set up to do the same thing (add the member_id to the url segment) and it gives me the correct id when clicked. Its just that when I try to pull the member_id into the url segment from a login, it gives me 0 as the id.

I imagine it parses member_id before your form completes and returns 0 since the user was not logged in at the time of member_id being parsed.

Sure. Makes sense. I may just need to decide on a work around.

Sure. Makes sense. I may just need to decide on a work around.

You could put in a redirect after the user submits the login form, something like:

change the return to another page:

{exp:member:login_form return=“user/thankyou/”}

and in the user/thankyou template, have:

{if logged_in} {redirect="user/files/{member_id}"} {/if}

and in the user/files template, have:

{exp:channel:entries author_id="{member_id}"}{title}{/exp:channel:entries}

{exp:channel:entries author_id="{segment_3}"}{title}{/exp:channel:entries}

Unfortunately, that gives me this error: The URI you submitted has disallowed characters.
It’s not allowing {member_id} within the redirect.

try this

put this at the very top of the thankyou template

{assign_variable:logged_in_id="{member_id}"}

then in the redirect

{redirect="user/files/{logged_in_id}"}

why do need the currently logged in member’s member_id w/i the segment? it is a global variable and you can get it without being in the URL.

You know what. It was a simple answer…always is right? I didn’t need to use that last fix you mentioned. Thanks so much for your help.

The goal:
I want a member to log in and it takes the directly to their account page. Easy enough. On their account page is a list of all of their entries, so I wanted it to only show their entries.

Where I was using this code

{exp:channel:entries author_id="{member_id}"}{title}{/exp:channel:entries}

Instead of {member_id} I was trying to use {logged_in_member_id} and that wouldnt work. Changed that around and its just right now.

Again, thanks for your help.

Thanks for the assist, bkmorse.

Matthew - Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions.