Redirect after login is wrong how do I change it?

when I add something to the cart and then go to check out and it asks me to log in after I login it takes me to the front page not to the check out how can I fix that? It does the same thing when I create an account.

here is the codes I found.
/includes/modules/pages/login/header_php.php

$sql = "UPDATE " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS_INFO . "
              SET customers_info_date_of_last_logon = now(),
                  customers_info_number_of_logons = customers_info_number_of_logons+1
              WHERE customers_info_id = :customersID";

      $sql = $db->bindVars($sql, ':customersID',  $_SESSION['customer_id'], 'integer');
      $db->Execute($sql);
      $zco_notifier->notify('NOTIFY_LOGIN_SUCCESS');

      // restore cart contents
      $_SESSION['cart']->restore_contents();
      /*
      if ($_SESSION['cart']->count_contents() > 0) {
      zen_redirect(zen_href_link(FILENAME_CHECKOUT_SHIPPING));
      }

/includes/modules/pages/create_account_success/header_php.php

if (sizeof($_SESSION['navigation']->snapshot) > 0) {
  $origin_href = zen_href_link($_SESSION['navigation']->snapshot['page'], zen_array_to_string($_SESSION['navigation']->snapshot['get'], array(zen_session_name())), $_SESSION['navigation']->snapshot['mode']);
  $_SESSION['navigation']->clear_snapshot();
} else {
  $origin_href = zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT);
}

// redirect customer to where they came from if their cart is not empty and they didn't click on create-account specifically
if ($_SESSION['cart']->count_contents() > 0) {
  if ($origin_href != zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT)) {
    zen_redirect($origin_href);
  }
}

any ideas?

touchclothing:

when I add something to the cart and then go to check out and it asks me to log in after I login it takes me to the front page not to the check out how can I fix that? It does the same thing when I create an account.
That's not how a brand new uncustomized clean install works.
Normally if it redirects you to login as part of checkout, it takes you right back to the checkout page you were expecting once you've logged in.

Perhaps you have one or more addons or code customizations that are breaking the default behavior.

I did not build the site. I am just trying to help some out.

I'm building our store using ZC version 1.3.8....my partner and I are creating our own custom template.

If we wanted the login to redirect to an alternatve page, say an EZPage what code would need to be changed to do it?

I was thinking that I could simply update the redirect variable being used in the login.php code to replace the FILENAME_DEFAULT with FILENAME_EZPAGES and specify the page number?

any better ideas?

That sounds right. What happened when you did that?

sorry about the delayed response...I was away and I haven't found a way to get notified of responses?

I couldn't figure out what page and exactly what to edit. After all FILENAME_DEFAULT is used 1100 times so how do I know which login is for the store and which is for the Admin console?

any suggestions would be appreciated.

thanks in advance.

Jon

I've had this problem a couple of times recently - I've found that setting Recrete Session to false in Config > Sessions gets rid of the problem most of the time (it's happened on several sites), but not always.

I think the problem has to do with the users session as I don;t think the $_SESSION['navigation'] variable is being setup/accessed correctly.

Does this give anyone any pointers or ring any bells?

Thanks

Andy

this is what is happening with mine from the begining of a clean install (thought it is default set-up) and been searching posts in forum to redirect back to shopping cart or last viewed product page instead of main page.