Implementing email activation routine: need advice

[dgvirtual]

I am thinking about implementing email activation routine after registration, and I need advice. Maybe @lonnieezell or others can share some.

From where I stand it seems that I would have to extend the shield EmailActivator class overwriting every method that returns a view, and then extend the shield controller ActionController and overwriting all of it's methods. Otherwise I will not be able to use Bonfire2 theming. Shield seems to include a trait Viewable to ease theming by returning a protected method view(), but I see the Bonfire uses a different trait Theamable and a method render() so it seems I cannot easily use Themable with the original Shield EmailActivator library and ActionController.

Am I on the right track here? Any other advice you can give me?

I am learning OOP and Bonfire2 seems to be a good project to tinker...