Adds the registering account's email address, stored registration IP and registration date to phpBB's administrator activation emails. Valid IPv4 and IPv6 addresses include WHOIS/RDAP and Stop Forum Spam lookup links.
Requires phpBB 3.3.19 or phpBB 4.0 and PHP 8.3.36 or later. phpBB 4.0 is still a development branch; see testing for tested revisions.
Copy this extension into ext/phpbbmodders/adminactivationdetails/, then
open ACP → Customise → Manage extensions and enable Admin Activation Details.
Set Account activation to By admin in User registration settings.
Administrators must enable email for the existing User requiring activation
notification in their UCP notification settings.
There are no additional settings or database migrations. Disable the extension to restore phpBB's original activation notification and email template.
- Covers administrator activation notifications from registration and resends.
- Uses the account's stored registration IP, not the current visitor's address.
- Keeps phpBB's existing recipients, notification preferences, profile link, activation link and mail queue behavior.
- Uses phpBB's current email-rendering user's date format and timezone, shown explicitly beside the date. A queued email keeps that rendered date.
- Missing or invalid IPs show Not available and omit lookup links.
- Sends no passwords and makes no requests to lookup services. Clicking a lookup link submits the IP to that service. A registration IP may identify a proxy or VPN.
The extension supplies a plain-text English email template; phpBB's normal
language fallback applies. Translations can provide
language/<locale>/email/admin_activate.txt inside this extension. Existing
core-template customizations and HTML-email modifications do not automatically
carry over to the extension's template.
Browser previews of captured test emails with synthetic details. Click an image to see it full size; see the gallery.
See implementation and testing. The extension listens to
core.modify_notification_template and changes only the admin_activate email.
Another extension replacing that template may conflict.
No phpBB core files need editing. If using phpBB's CLI to enable or disable
the extension, run cache:purge afterward to rebuild its cached services.
The feature was requested in this phpBB discussion.
Synthetic IPv4 and IPv6 email examples are included. Their example activation keys do not work.
Contributions are welcome!
- Bug reports: Open an issue.
- Everything else (questions, feature requests, ideas, general discussion): Use Discussions.
- Pull requests are welcome for bug fixes or discussed features.
- Implementation, testing and documentation assisted by Codex.
This extension is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0. See license.txt.