Magento - Redirect account edit success

Question

When i edit my account information in "customer/account/edit", after submits it goes to my account page. I need the form to stay in same page after submitting and saving information. In my module config.xml i made a redirect:

<frontend>
    <events>
        <controller_action_postdispatch_customer_account_editPostAction>
            <observers>
              <customerredirect>
                <class>customerredirect/observer_customer</class>
                <method>editRedirect</method>
              </customerredirect>
            </observers>
        </controller_action_postdispatch_customer_account_editPostAction>
    </events>
</frontend>

Then in Model -> Observer -> Customer.php i have the function:

   public function editRedirect(Varien_Event_Observer $observer){
      $url = Mage::getUrl('sales/order/history');
      Mage::app()->getResponse()->setRedirect($url);
      return $this;
    }

If i change

controller_action_postdispatch_customer_account_editPostAction

into

controller_action_postdispatch_customer_account_edit

it redirects account edit page into sales history. But what i want to redirect is after form submits. I'm also trying to redirect my account inital page "customer/account" to "sales/order/history" page, but this method it's not working when i put controller_action_postdispatch_customer_account.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You have to simply rewrite a app/code/core/Mage/Customer/controllers/AccountController.php, editPostAction() in your local codePool, then change this :

...
try {
    $customer->cleanPasswordsValidationData();
    $customer->save();
    $this->_getSession()->setCustomer($customer)
         ->addSuccess($this->__('The account information has been saved.'));
    $this->_redirect('customer/account');
    return;
...

to:

...
    try {
        $customer->cleanPasswordsValidationData();
        $customer->save();
        $this->_getSession()->setCustomer($customer)
             ->addSuccess($this->__('The account information has been saved.'));
        $this->_redirect('*/*/edit');
        return;
...

Then after submit, he save a new data and return the same page.

Answer 2

Why controller_action_postdispatch_customer_account_editPostAction not worked

In order to understand the why controller_action_postdispatch_customer_account_editPostAction is not worked then You should check Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Action's at method dispatch($action)

In magento, there are all the events by application defined and at every page dispatch there are few events call automatically like

Mage::dispatchEvent( 'controller_action_postdispatch_'.$this->getFullActionName(), array('controller_action'=>$this) );

As per as this logic,magento is create an event controller_action_postdispatch_customer_account_edit on customer/account/edit's postdispatch().

The full Action name of this URL is customer_account_edit .$this->getFullActionName() give this fullaction Name of this url.

As we know that customer/account/edit mean routername/ActioName/Actionname

• Route name is customer As frontend name customer
account

• Controller file is AccountController.php that why Action name account

• Action Method is editAction() that why Action name edit

---

controller_action_postdispatch_customer_account_editPostAction

So, it editaccountinfo's event name is

controller_action_postdispatch_customer_account_editPost

---

"customer/account" is event name is

controller_action_postdispatch_customer_account_index