Email Account Activation with Token

[spaceageliving]

I'm trying to have a new user activation process which uses the User:Register_Form tag, but which also implements the Email Invitation with token that occurs when creating a user manually in the control panel.

Is this possible?

The idea being that I want the additional hurdle of the newly-registered user accessing the email sent to the given email address and performing the activation by clicking on the embedded link with token in the email before logged_in status is reached the first time. As the Register_Form tag works now, anybody can put in any validly-formed email address and immediately be logged into the site--not a desirable situation when, for example, there is a comment forum with potential for spamming etc.

If this is not possible "out of the box" with Statamic, would the recommended approach be to roll your own routes/controller for new user activation, and use Statamic's User class to create the user? The Control Panel activation process (and User model) includes generating a Token and validating it when the user clicks the activation link--can this be leveraged in a "roll your own" approach?

Any help/ideas greatly appreciated.

[spaceageliving]

Following up on this in the event a fellow traveller lands on this--the answer is yes, using the Statamic User object there is a method to send a token-enabled email for account verification. I dispatch an event in a register() method in a UserController in Laravel land that gets handled like so:

    public function handle(UserRegistered $event)
    {
        $event->user->generateTokenAndSendActivateAccountNotification();
    }

Works great! Pass the $user in the event.