http://buddydev.com/forums/topic/unique-group-names BuddyDev Premium Forum en-US Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:47:13 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://buddydev.com/forums/search.php http://buddydev.com/forums/topic/unique-group-names#post-2770 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:37:08 +0000 Patrick 2770@http://buddydev.com/forums/ <p>@brajesh</p> <p>Thanks for this. Brilliantly simple as always :-) </p> http://buddydev.com/forums/topic/unique-group-names#post-2766 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:18:42 +0000 gwu 2766@http://buddydev.com/forums/ <p>too good. Just copy paste and it works.</p> <p>Thanks </p> http://buddydev.com/forums/topic/unique-group-names#post-2723 Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:01:33 +0000 Shane_NY_777 2723@http://buddydev.com/forums/ <p>I tried it. it worked for me. thanks :) </p> http://buddydev.com/forums/topic/unique-group-names#post-2720 Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:38:34 +0000 Brajesh Singh 2720@http://buddydev.com/forums/ <p>It can be done via hooking on the filter<br /> "groups_group_name_before_save" but there is no other way to do it</p> <p>Put this function in your theme's functions.php<br /> <pre><code>add_filter(&quot;groups_group_name_before_save&quot;,&quot;allow_unique_names_only&quot;); function allow_unique_names_only($name){ global $bp; $groups=BP_Groups_Group::search_groups($name);//search groups $duplicate=false; if(&#39;group-details&#39;==$bp-&gt;groups-&gt;current_create_step&amp;&amp;!empty($groups)&amp;&amp;$groups[&#39;total&#39;]&gt;0){ //we have match, but is there an exact match foreach($groups[&#39;groups&#39;] as $g){ $group=new BP_Groups_Group($g-&gt;group_id); if($group-&gt;name==$name){ $duplicate=true;//found duplicate break;//break the loop; } } if($duplicate){ bp_core_add_message(&quot;Duplicate group name&quot;,&quot;error&quot;); bp_core_redirect( $bp-&gt;root_domain . &#39;/&#39; . $bp-&gt;groups-&gt;slug . &#39;/create/step/&#39; . $bp-&gt;groups-&gt;current_create_step . &#39;/&#39; ); } } return $name; }</code></pre> <p>and then try creating duplicate group.<br /> Please let me know if it works for you or not ? </p> http://buddydev.com/forums/topic/unique-group-names#post-2706 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:19:13 +0000 gwu 2706@http://buddydev.com/forums/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Can anyone tel me how to have unique group names, same functionality as the username ?</p> <p>May be even prompt user with error message saying group by this name already exists.</p> <p>Thanks </p>