Custom URL redirect by role after success login on Symfony 2 using a service listener without FOSUser Bundle.

LoginSuccessHandler.php

# src/Acme/DemoBundle/Security/Authentication/Handler/LoginSuccessHandler.php
<?php

namespace Acme\DemoBundle\Security\Authentication\Handler;

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RedirectResponse;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\Router;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authentication\Token\TokenInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\SecurityContext;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Http\Authentication\AuthenticationSuccessHandlerInterface;
 
class LoginSuccessHandler implements AuthenticationSuccessHandlerInterface
{
    protected 
        $router,
        $security;
    
    public function __construct(Router $router, SecurityContext $security)
    {
        $this->router = $router;
        $this->security = $security;
    }
    
    public function onAuthenticationSuccess(Request $request, TokenInterface $token)
    {
        // URL for redirect the user to where they were before the login process begun if you want.
        // $referer_url = $request->headers->get('referer');
        
        // Default target for unknown roles. Everyone else go there.
        $url = 'homepage';

        if($this->security->isGranted('ROLE_USER')) {
            $url = 'user_homepage';
        }
        elseif($this->security->isGranted('ROLE_ADMIN')) {
            $url = 'admin_dashboard';
        }

        $response = new RedirectResponse($this->router->generate($url));
            
        return $response;
    }
}

security.yml

# app/config/security.yml
security:
    ...
    
    firewalls:
    
        main:                       # name of your firewall
            form_login:
                ...
            
                use_referer:         false
                success_handler:     login_success_handler

services.yml

# src/Acme/DemoBundle/Resources/config/services.yml
parameters:
    acme_demo.authentication.handler.login_success_handler.class: Acme\DemoBundle\Security\Authentication\Handler\LoginSuccessHandler
    
services:
    login_success_handler:
        class:      %acme_demo.authentication.handler.login_success_handler.class%
        arguments:  [@router, @security.context]
        tags:
            - { name: 'monolog.logger', channel: 'security' }

In the latest versions of Symfony, SecurityContext is deprecated.

You have to use:

use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authorization\AuthorizationChecker;

public function __construct(Router $router, AuthorizationChecker $security)
{
    // ...
}

arguments:  ["@router", "@security.authorization_checker"]

.../routing.yml

index:
pattern: /
defaults: { _controller: ACMEBundle:Security:index }

.../SecurityController

public function indexAction()
{
if($this->get('security.authorization_checker')->isGranted('ROLE_ADMIN')){
return $this->redirectToRoute('foo', array());
}else{
return $this->redirectToRoute('bar', array());
}
}

I'm trying to implement this solution but I've some problems with the redirection, the login form doesn't redirect after a successful login but I get the HTML code of the redirected page in my Javascript console. Any ideas?

I've done a temporary solution, returning a Json and redirecting to desired target URL by Javascript:

		$url = $this->router->generate('homepage');

		$result = array(
			'success' => true,
			'function' => 'onAuthenticationSuccess',
			'error' => false,
			'message' => 'OK',
			'url' => $url
		);

		$response = new Response(json_encode($result));
		$response->headers->set('Content-Type', 'application/json');

		return $response;

Then in Javascript: window.location.replace(data.url);

For some reason the RedirectResponse doesn't work for me :(

we need to check if isGranted as ROLE_ADMIN before , because ROLE_ADMIN has ROLE_USER also.

Thank you, it works like a charm.

How can you make this work in symfony 4??

You are the best!!! Thank you very much! On symfony 4 works fine!

Thanks for sharing!! Also might want to take a look at:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15918617/symfony2-extending-defaultauthenticationsuccesshandler