Cakephp redirect in isAuthorized method not working - cakephp

Question

So after login in isAuthorized method I'm trying to redirect user based on a condition. But problem is it's not redirecting. Below the code that I have tried.
protected function isAuthorized($LoginUser)
{
if ($this->getTable('Users')->hasCompany($LoginUser) == false){
$this->redirect(['controller'=>'Companies','action'=>'edit']);
dd("hello");
}
}
It's not redirecting and getting hello message. How can I redirect after login user to another page based on condition ?

Answer 1

As mentioned in the comments, the auth component's authorization objects are supposed to return a boolean, and depending on that, let the component do the unauthorized handling-
What you could do, is for example dynamically set the component's unauthorizedRedirect option (and probably also authError) from the controller's authorization handler for that specific case (I guess you'd also have to exclude the respective company controller's action from that check, as otherwise you'll end up in an infinite redirect loop):
if (!$this->getTable('Users')->hasCompany($LoginUser)) {
$message = __('You must provide company information in order to proceed.');
$url = \Cake\Routing\Router::url([
'controller' => 'Companies',
'action' => 'add'
]);
$this->Auth->setConfig([
'authError' => $message,
'unauthorizedRedirect' => $url,
]);
return false;
}
// ...
return true;
If you find yourself in a situation where there's no such possibility, brute forcing a redirect by throwing a \Cake\Http\Exception\RedirectException could be a solution too, even though it's ideally avoided, it's better than dying, as it will at least emit a clean redirect response:
$url = \Cake\Routing\Router::url([
'controller' => 'Companies',
'action' => 'add'
]);
throw new \Cake\Http\Exception\RedirectException($url);
See also
Cookbook > Controllers > Components > AuthComponent > Configuration options