Another of my simple little mods that saves me some time, thought I'd share. I occasionally have a small group of troublemakers attempting to sign back up under aliases, so I have my forum set up to require admin approval of new registrations. If a new person awaiting approval looks suspicious I like to check out the geolocation or ARIN whois of their IP, send them an email asking for more info or Google their email address. This adds those options to the Registration Queue tab under member manage in the admin interface. If anyone knows of a better IP geolocator that lets you pass the IP in a query in the URL, lemme know.
Files modified: templates/default/admin/membermanage.tmpl
Find this (around line 318):
<br />{$que[$i]['uname']}<br />{$que[$i]['email']}<br />{$que[$i]['ip']}
Replace with this:
<!-- hack for more info on incoming users-->
<br />{$que[$i]['uname']}<br /><a href="mailto:{$que[$i]['email']}">{$que[$i]['email']}</a> (<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q={$que[$i]['email']}" target="_blank">Google Email Addy</a>)<br />
<a href="http://www.rleeden.no-ip.com/geotool.php?ip={$que[$i]['ip']}" target="_blank">{$que[$i]['ip']}</a> (<a href="http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput={$que[$i]['ip']}" target="_blank">ARIN IP Whois</a>) (<a href="http://whois.domaintools.com/{$que[$i]['ip']}" target="_blank">Domain Tools IP info</a>)
I always comment these things as "hacks", I don't know if I should call them "hacks" or "mods", but in any case, there ya go.
PS: I just realized that Gizmo has a similar thing to link IP addresses next to a person's post in showflat. I added a link to his domaintools info page, too.
