Allow the expire field to be placed in the published options regardless of the administer nodes permission

The changes have been placed to 7.x-1.x-dev release. Thank you droath!

Tested and added to the recommended release 7.x-1.6.

Note this patch may not behave as described in the original post; when users do not have the necessary permissions, $form['options'] still is set, just that $form['options']['#access'] = FALSE. This patch checks for if $form['options'] is set so under this circumstance the node expire is not added to the form at all.

Stewart, you are right. Thank you for the note.

I made some corrections and placed them to 7.x-1.x-dev release. Does this look better? Or version without the patch is preferable?

Changes have been added to the recommended release 7.x-1.7. The code piece after changes is below.

  // If the form doesn't have the publishing options we'll create our own.
  if (!$form['options']['#access']) {
    $form['options1'] = array(
      '#type' => 'fieldset',
      '#title' => t('Publishing options'),
      '#collapsible' => TRUE,
      '#collapsed' => FALSE,
      '#weight' => 95,
    );
    $form['options1']['expire'] = &$expire_field;
  }
  else {
    $form['options']['expire'] = &$expire_field;
  }