Is there also anyway that when they are linked the steamID icons at the post profiles will always go to their /profiles/XXXXXX rather than their customURL?

Accounts hacked with steam guard enabled? Only way they could steal your account was if they had your email password... I wouldn't say there is nothing to worry about but I been using steam since it was launched and have 6 accounts and non have been hacked... 99% of the people I know that got their accounts stolen clicked the free games link that takes you to a page that looked like the official steam page they logged in and their accounts were hijacked... And the there are people that use the same password everywhere and there are websites set up years ago that the owner would take his users email address and user password and steal accounts on steam but Steam Guard help stop a lot of that crap...

If anything I would put a disclaimer on the Steam login to warn people not to use the same password everywhere...

In my opinion people who get hacked with steamguard activated did bring this on themselves. But I see where you're coming from, I'll see what I can do. In the meantime, you can disable the quick register feature, so people need a normal forum account first.

It should, doesn't it work?

The mod currently uses the url which steam sends from the profile information. If a steam id is set up for this profile, the full url with /id/idname is returned. I don't see a reason why the numeric url should be forced?


It seems that the feature to replace the normal register method completely with the steam linker has been requested a lot. Unfortunately, that's not so simple due to the way the register script is made. I'll see if there is a way to do it anyway.

What I mean DP is, if a user leaves our Steam Group it would be nice if a steamconnect cron would check the steam group membership and remove X usergroup from them if they're not in our steam group anymore.

So if I've made someone a member of our "Members" usergroup or they were in the steam group and moved to "Members" when registering, they can be removed automatically if they leave our Steam Group. We have a ton of members and from time to time they leave our Steam Group and they don't always have the same Steam name and Forum name so tracking them down in the users list and removing their "Members" usergroup is really time consuming.

i am taking an error after then login page what can i do

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

If I have a memcache server set up in my config.php, could you use that for caching instead of the stc_cachedir option?

First of all, I want to say great mod. I've installed it and using it on one of the communities I help manage.

I do need a little assistance, though. And of course, it'll be something a little crazy or else where is the fun in trying to do it.

The community I am using this for currently is on a game dev site. We are working with Steam to have the game downloadable through there. For a testing phase, we will want to distribute keys to the game for specific users so they can access the game.

Instead of doing the ol' "email them something" routine (people tend to lose these or not get them and we get to play email tag), we would rather put the key in their profile. Since we are only giving them to people who use Steam, we're requiring them to connect their account (via this mod, w00t).

Due to this, I figured I could just add a new field to the "do=steamlink" that displayed this (or the default "Unassigned" if they don't have one yet).

For this I am just using a custom Profile Field (#5) - Single-Line Text Box & Field Editable by User = No. We'll just inject the key into those profiles but we don't want a user accidentally messing up their key when trying to copy/paste it.

I thought I had everything working and this is what I used in the modifyoptions_steam template just under the "Profile visibility state:" part:

The label is showing up but the field is coming up blank. I figured you must be already calling vbbuser since you're grabbing the username but I could be wrong. Or am I not labeling the vb:raw correctly? Any help would be appreciated!


Feature Request: Something I think other devs and communities would enjoy is having something like this baked into the mod itself. Just a custom field(s) where they can assign data in it that the end-user can see but not manipulate. Would be good for Keys and other kind of data.

It appears quotation marks and other HTML entities in usernames are unescaped during the linking process
http://shproject.ru/ss/rVK.png

Whoa, Tony?

Hello :)

I get the same error Wolkhan gets, I think it may be releated to login2.php and trying to post the steam64 number to the user's line in the database. Any thoughts?

I can not read that... could you please translate the headline at least?

^

I think the "https" might be at fault?

What should i do ?

did you enter the "https://yourforumurl" when you created your steam api key?

Yes i try as "https://forum.trdota.net" and "http://forum.trdota.net" but i took this error message


https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/11/35.jpg

try using only "trdota.net"

i tried as https://www.trdota.net , http://www.trdota.net , www.trdota.net , trdota.net but error is the same :(

Your website doesn't display the register with steam button and I'm not able to read your language, so it's hard for me to reproduce it myself.

Disasterpiece fixed my problem thank you so much

I am having this issue as well, what was done to fix?

There is a solution I posted a while ago *somewhere* in this thread, I suggest you take a look through the thread, otherwise I'll come back to you later.

Do you use a windows machine? I think it appears on some server os which do some silly stuff. However I found a way around this problem and completed my work on the next 1.4.3 version which I will run a few days on my productive system before releasing it official.

The changes are: (not final)
If you really cant wait or want this problem to fixed immediately, send me a mail and I give you the next version earlier.

Update time!

Today I present the newest version (i skipped a version, dont be confused) 1.4.4 which will be RC3.
Introducing a few new features as requested and a bunch of fixes:

Anyone who had the browser error that the connection has been lost will be happy, because this is now solved.

The requested feature that users aren't allowed to unlink their account is now available too (optional) from the admincp settings.

If you're having a huge forum and want to make use of memcached, you'll find the optional memcache system there as well. xcache may be supported in the future if necessary, altough I think most will be covered with memcached, since it's clearly the more popular choice.

For anyone who uses the feature of usergroups depending of certain steamgroups the user is in, the update functionalities to monitor users leaving/joining said steamgroups now runs every night, so this should be improved as well.

Update process is straight-forward:

1) turn off your vbulletin
2) import the xml file as product, choose overwrite when uploading
3) upload and overwrite all existing files within the upload directory of the archive. Images may be omitted, if you use your own custom ones of course.

NOTE: To anyone who uses a logfile to log all steam connect actions, make sure to empty the logfile since it may have grown to a large filesize. There has been a bug which caused intense logging which has now been fixed.

Let me know if any problems turn up or anything doesn't work correctly.

Remember: Always back up your forum before performing updates!

I am having an issue, when i get added to the "forum" group for being in the steam group, in the mysql tables it puts my membergroupid as ,15. vBulletin doesnt like this or mysql doesnt like it, is there a fix to make it to where this isnt an issue ?

Ok so i found the thing you told me to download and i installed it. Now its STILL not appearing in my postbit thing and according to what you said i will find the avatar urls as a template var. What does that mean and where do i post {vb:raw post.steamavatar} so that i can get it to appear underneath the username of my users when they post a thread or a reply?

Thanks for the update DP. I noticed that it added a few people to the member group who I had missed! Awesome.

One problem though, there are several users who are not in my steam group anymore and they were not removed from that secondary usergroup.

I was sure that vb won't have a problem with that because I have seen other addons doing this too (the ,42 thing with the comma even if there's only one group) I'll check it later and upload a fixed version.

I suggest you send me a pm with your forum details and an administrative account, also include a detailed description how you want it to appear, then I'll take a look myself.

Can you run the maintenance action and confirm that it doesn't remove such users? If so, I'll check later today and include a fix in the next version. The membergroup thing is still a bit clunky, there are more than one user fields which need to be checked... Maybe I'll rework it so it is correct once and for all :rolleyes:

Yep, it doesn't remove them at all.

Our group has gotten quite sizable so it's hard to keep track of when users all the time. Sometimes we'll have users leave our group and not tell us, so they'll still have access to our Member only forums when we wouldn't want them having access. That's primarily what I use this feature for. Plus, it's nice to have our Member usergroup and Steam members group fully sync'd.

Installed and working on Version 4.2.0 PL3 :)

Is there away to make it so people who haven't linked there steam account to have a button saying "Link your steam account now" instead it saying "Sign in using steam"?

Disaster this is what i get when i have the issue

Can you add a steam connect option to set the size of the avatar in the profile. Right now its way to big on full. It would be nice to have a drop down setting to change everybody on the websites steam avatar size.

It would also be nice to haven an option to turn that off/on.

OK i sent you the information, once again thanks a lot :D

You could modify the graphic to say what you want it to say if you like.

That must be related to the membergroup format issue I discussed a few posts earlier. Do you need immediate help with this? If so, please contact me with access to your database (phpmyadmin) or send me a PM, I'll explain you how to fix this by yourself if you prefer.

I'll look into it.

Another Update Time!

Today I included a bunch of fixes for functionalities and a critical bugfix which caused database errors in some cases.

You'll find a small patch process when updating the plugin file. Older versions of the mod just appended additional usergroups to the existing ones, this could lead to invalid strings like ,1 or 5,,6 which would cause database errors if they appeared. The patcher fixes those entries and the updated addon will make sure that this won't happen again.

Next are a few new options, the important ones being that you now can force steam users to enter an email address. At the beginning I thought that new users shouldn't be bothered with having to enter an email address but I respect many forum owners want to be able to send those users emails nontheless, so you're now able to turn on quick registration but have the user to enter an email address. This of course doesn't affect existing users which didn't enter one.

Next is the improved update functionality for handling with additional usergroups when a user registers with steam connect and is in the specified steam group. Last time this didn't work quite well, so now everything revolving about those groups and linking/unlinking forum accounts should work as intended.
Additionally, the scheduled job which keeps those associations updated runs every day at 4:00 am. If you want to increase the interval or change the time, you may do so in the scheduled task section of the admincp.

What you'll notice is a linkback at the footer of your forum to this vb.org mod page and to steam. Reason is, that steam does actually require a linkback to appear on any sites which use their API. This change follows the requirement and appends a linkback to this mod if someone is curious where to find this addon. This doesn't give me any benefits like revenue other than more popularity for the mod which again doesn't generate any money for me directly. You are welcome to donate a small amount if you really want to remove the backlink to this mod page, the steam backlink however must remain because I don't have any power over their rules.

As always, backup your forum before updating, download the newest archive file, upload all contents inside "upload" into your forum overwriting existing ones, then upload the new xml plugin file in your admincp choosing to update existing products.

Let me know if any issues come up.

Updated no problems :)

Why does this check need to take so long? I think you could use the ISteamUser/GetUserGroupList API. Ex:
http://api.steampowered.com/ISteamUser/GetUserGroupList/v0001/?key=<redacted>&format=xml&steamid=765611979684594 73

I had to update mine twice to get it to show in admincp settings

FROM
product-steamconnect_1_4_4rc3.zip
TO
product-steamconnect_1_4_5rc3.zip

And the API and group settings was removed as well

Not complaining just might be my hosting...

Thanks, wasn't aware I can use this too. I'll check if I can improve the function.

I re-arranged the settings, maybe that's why. But it shouldn't be a problem I hope.

You can have a look at the ISteamWebAPIUtil/GetSupportedAPIList API to see all the APIs available. Just make sure to give it an API key like the other APIs otherwise you'll only see APIs available without an API key.