Integration with vBulletin - Steam Connect - Sign in with your Steam Account! [RC3]

Steam Connect

INFO

-- Steam Connect Addon for vBulletin 4.2.x;
Development Platform := vBulletin 4.1.3 - 4.2.0, Debian Linux, PHP5, MySQL5, apache2;
Dependencies := lib cUrl (PHP), openid (included);
Author := Andreas "Radon" Rudolph, Disasterpiece;
Contact := radon@purgatory-labs.de, https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=198844
Homepage := http://purgatory-labs.de


WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE INSTALLING

This addon is Unsupported as of 2015 until further notice. I have not enough time or interest in vbulletin to keep this alive.

This addon provides a framework for future extensions which make use of the Steam API.
It helps to determine the SteamID of an user. Unless older methods of inserting the steam
id into a user field, the addon lets the user authenticate with Steam OpenID, therefore
you can trust 100%, that this particular user is the same user as the Steam-ID provided.

Users can link their Steam ID to their forum account or they can create a new account
using details pulled from their Steam Profile.
Like the Facebook connect plugin, it allows users to quickly set up a forum account without
having to define a password or an email address. This option can be disabled in the AdminCP,
however it is encouraged to allow users to use this quick-register feature, since they
already authenticated themselves through steam, so any additional password or email
authentication is just unnecessary.

If the user decides to un-link his forum account with his steam-profile, he has to set up
a password and email first, so the forum account remains usable after this.

At the moment, the addon is in its second RC state, which means that the current versions contain mostly bugfixes and are candidates for a full release.
Until now, the product worked without major problems in productive environments. Although it is stable as is, the author doesn't provide any guarantee.
Due to the nature of the addon and how vBulletin manages 3rd party code inclusion, additional
login and register methods have been provided by the plugin. It is discouraged to use the
plugin on high profile communities in this early development state.

If you have any further questions, feel free to post in this thread.


F.A.Q. / General Issues / Error Messages

"There has been a problem with the OpenID libary: No OpenID Server found at http://steamcommunity.com/openid"
- Additionally, a 503 HTTP error is thrown. Simple solution: Wait. Steam Community servers are overloaded/down right now, there's nothing you can do about it

Do NOT uninstall the mod if you want to keep the linked users records. Upgrading means uploading the new product xml file for the new version and choose "overwrite" in the upload dialog.
The Installer will handle the update process by its own. Uninstalling the product will erase all the table fields which contain the steam link data.


STEAM CONNECT ADDONS

- Steam Mini Profiles


INSTALL HOWTO

[MadMakz]

the ava is not a steam problem. at least the issue i posted about.
it fails on running the plugin code in "postbit_display_start".
it's always producing an empty/broken result if the cache is outdated and actually an "update cache" should've been triggered.

when the "postbit_display_start" code actually has to update the cache it will always break and create an "empty" cachefile for the user (see this post).

looking up the specific user via admincp or you go to your steam section in your usercp will always fix it and work correctly for the specific user respectively yourself. otherwise the steaminfo cache will remain corrupted/empty.

this leads to that an invalid image url will be build an thus the avatar shows as missing/alt-text.

i'm suspecting a path or hook problem but still i have not much clue about vBs hook/plugin system and since my "community" is practicaly dead i have no real effort to look trough the whole thing.

[joshskeety]

Glad you found that out. Here's to hoping Disasterpiece can send out a small update to address this prior to the cache release.

[Disasterpiece]

Originally Posted by MadMakz

the ava is not a steam problem. at least the issue i posted about.
it fails on running the plugin code in "postbit_display_start".
it's always producing an empty/broken result if the cache is outdated and actually an "update cache" should've been triggered.

when the "postbit_display_start" code actually has to update the cache it will always break and create an "empty" cachefile for the user (see this post).

looking up the specific user via admincp or you go to your steam section in your usercp will always fix it and work correctly for the specific user respectively yourself. otherwise the steaminfo cache will remain corrupted/empty.

this leads to that an invalid image url will be build an thus the avatar shows as missing/alt-text.

i'm suspecting a path or hook problem but still i have not much clue about vBs hook/plugin system and since my "community" is practicaly dead i have no real effort to look trough the whole thing.

Interesting find. I haven't yet been able to reproduce this in my test forum, but in my productive forum I noticed the empty files as well (stc_.cached with an empty array inside).
They aren't harmful at all, only useless and a byproduct of calling the fetch_steam_info() with an empty steam_id parameter. This has now been fixed.

Cases where relevant stc_NUMBER.cached files are empty es well, that hasn't occured to me yet. I'm also not sure what may cause this to happen since most special cases like steam sending a 500 or 404 are already handled accordingly.

or in short: I'll figure something out

[Cadellin]

I'd like to add a Steam connect logo/icon to the header in the same way that Facebook does. What is the best vb:if condition to use as to whether someone is connected to Steam or not?

[Disasterpiece]

<vb:if condition="$bbuserinfo['steam_id']">...</vb:if>

Try this

[|Jordan|]

When users try to register with this plugin and they get redirected to the registration page, after filling out all the info it says "You have left a required field blank."

How can i get the page to display all the required fields that the regular registration page displays?

[joshskeety]

Originally Posted by Disasterpiece

Interesting find. I haven't yet been able to reproduce this in my test forum, but in my productive forum I noticed the empty files as well (stc_.cached with an empty array inside).
They aren't harmful at all, only useless and a byproduct of calling the fetch_steam_info() with an empty steam_id parameter. This has now been fixed.

Cases where relevant stc_NUMBER.cached files are empty es well, that hasn't occured to me yet. I'm also not sure what may cause this to happen since most special cases like steam sending a 500 or 404 are already handled accordingly.

or in short: I'll figure something out

You said it has now been fixed, does that mean avatars should work now? If so, is the one available in the OP a fix to the version I have now?

[joshskeety]

I had a good idea for this plugin. When a user links their Steam Account, allow the ability for the Administrator to specify a Steam Group in the settings. When a user links their accounts, if they're a part of that Steam Group, move them to X Usergroup. This would allow us to have users sign up and when they link their accounts, if they're a member of our clan/group, they'll automatically get moved in to a Usergroup we specify. This would alleviate the task of adding users to a Usergroup manually.

[Disasterpiece]

Originally Posted by joshskeety

I had a good idea for this plugin. When a user links their Steam Account, allow the ability for the Administrator to specify a Steam Group in the settings. When a user links their accounts, if they're a part of that Steam Group, move them to X Usergroup. This would allow us to have users sign up and when they link their accounts, if they're a member of our clan/group, they'll automatically get moved in to a Usergroup we specify. This would alleviate the task of adding users to a Usergroup manually.

Great idea, added to the featurelist. :up:

[CoZmicShReddeR]

I too like Joshskeety's idea

I also would like a stats page with users who use the website's Steam much like the Xbox one on here might entice more users to use it...

Would also like to see it offer to use your Steam Avatar maybe have it be dynamic and I also would like to suggest the adding of something like http://steamsignature.com/ to the Steam profiles to give them the option to use the signature in their profile not sure if you could add the raw files for forums to produce their own steam sigs but would like the option for users... Not sure how far you want to code this thing as time goes by but sounds like a few people here like using it so far...

Disasterpiece please do not give up on this project... If you seriously plan to keep working on it I am going to donate you some moneys...