Allow site admins to restrict group creation

[simonwheatley]

I'm working on a site where we don't want to allow the creation of groups by everybody. Looking through the group creation functions it doesn't look possible to restrict the creation of groups through plugin currently, the hook-to-stop-group-creation.diff patch (attached) adds a hook to allow this to happen.

The restrict-group-creation.php plugin (attached) shows how a plugin might use this new hook, and some existing ones, to disallow group creation with a nice user message explaining why, remove the "create group" link, and post a message on the first step of the group creation form explaining to the user that they can't create a group. I did look into actually removing the form fields, but this didn't appear to be possible without further code additions, and the measures described above seemed sufficient.

[simonwheatley]

Patch to add a hook allowing plugins to restrict group creation

[simonwheatley]

Plugin showing how the new hook might be used in a plugin which stops group creation

[Jason_JM]

Via IRC, Simon has agreed to re-write patch to allow the option for Admin to set whether a group can be created.

[cnorris23]

An updated patch for current trunk.

[cnorris23]

Refresh/update patch

[cnorris23]

Ignore 1150.001.2.diff. Uploaded wrong patch

[cnorris23]

for 1.2 branch

[cnorris23]

Adding patch for 1.2 branch. I haven't tested this version yet, but I don't think there should be an issue. All of my 1.2 test installs have been upgraded.

[boonebgorges]

(In [4338]) Adds admin switch to allow group creation to be restricted to Super Admins only. Fixes #1150. Props cnorris23