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

[mikez006]

Ran into a problem with usergroups.

Primary usergroup for all new members (including Steam Connect) is: usergroup1
Steam Connect users are added to a secondary usergroup: Steam Users

We have multiple membership plans which move members to different primary usergroups.

If a "Steam" user upgrades their account, their primary usergroup is changed. However when the Steam Connect cache time expires, it reacquires their Steam info, but then changes their primary usergroup back to the default usergroup (usergroup1).

Increasing cache time to a very large number will solve this, but then their info will never update.

Is there a way that the primary usergroup change can be disabled after the Steam users registers for the first time?

Update: I doesn't appear to be the cache time. I set it for 90 days, but members are still being removed from their upgraded usergroups and are being move back to the default usergroup1.

Any ideas?

[Grouper]

Your get_user_steamid() is broken. user info doesn't include steam_link even though it is in the database. If you provide get_user_steamid() with no params then you will always get a return false because of this.

[Yumiyashi]

Possibility of port to vb5?

[ozzy47]

I doubt it. vB5 is not made to be mod friendly.

[mikez006]

Using 4.2.2.

I commented out this line from the Steam Connect cron job and it solved the problem.

$finishat = update_user_steamgroup_assoc(null, null, 1, 1, 1);

[ozzy47]

Glad to hear you came up with a solution to your issue mikez006.

[Skyrider]

Originally Posted by tdev1

Works fine here, except when steam web API goes down, then even 1 second timeout is too much.

The following change allows timeouts below 1 second:

PHP Code:

    $timeout = 0.3;
// ...
    curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS, $timeout * 1000 );
    curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS, $timeout * 1000 ); 


You never 'mentioned' where you changed this though. Showing the code is awesome, but the location of where to find it is another question.

[mfowler70]

Had another idea. Hopefully this one is good like my last one was.

Regarding the Steam avatars, when they're online in Steam, the border is Green. When they're offline, it's Blue. When you click the avatar, it sends you to their community profile.

Did anyone ever figure out how to accomplish this?

[mfowler70]

By the way, this is how I tackle the issue with non-Steam avatars not showing up using the method outlined previously in this thread. I'm sure the code isn't proper and I'm no programmer but this works for me.

PHP Code:

<vb:if condition="$post['steam_code']"><a href="http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/{vb:raw post.steamid}" target="_blank" title="{vb:rawphrase {vb:raw post['onlinestatusphrase']}, {vb:raw post.username}}"><img src="{vb:raw post.steamavatarmedium}" /></a>
            <vb:else /><a class="postuseravatar" href="{vb:link member, {vb:raw post}}" title="{vb:rawphrase {vb:raw post['onlinestatusphrase']}, {vb:raw post.username}}"><img src="{vb:raw post.avatarurl}" /></a>
            </vb:if> 


[Doc913]

Originally Posted by mfowler70

By the way, this is how I tackle the issue with non-Steam avatars not showing up using the method outlined previously in this thread. I'm sure the code isn't proper and I'm no programmer but this works for me.

PHP Code:

<vb:if condition="$post['steam_code']"><a href="http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/{vb:raw post.steamid}" target="_blank" title="{vb:rawphrase {vb:raw post['onlinestatusphrase']}, {vb:raw post.username}}"><img src="{vb:raw post.steamavatarmedium}" /></a>
            <vb:else /><a class="postuseravatar" href="{vb:link member, {vb:raw post}}" title="{vb:rawphrase {vb:raw post['onlinestatusphrase']}, {vb:raw post.username}}"><img src="{vb:raw post.avatarurl}" /></a>
            </vb:if> 


Where should the code be pasted?