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

[joshskeety]

Originally Posted by rockerzteam

That's where alot of coders have gone wrong. They forgot about all the happy 3.8.7 users and moved onto only 4.x.x

I am happy with 3.8.7 and have the option to upgrade but I don't like the new vbulletin.

Even if you made this a paid mod and made it available to 3.8.x alot of users that run gaming sites like myself would buy it.

I stuck with 3.8.x for a while, because I didn't like how 4 looked style wise, but I've since found some nice styles for it and found it better than 3.8.x in many ways. You can't really fault a developer for only supporting the version he uses.

[|Jordan|]

This plugin is not compatible with:

Stop the Registration Bots
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=244746

Whenever a user tries to register, they get the error:

You have left a required field blank.

Can you add a fix for this? Stop the registration Bots is really effective at stopping registration bots.

[alex902602]

For some reason this causes threads to load extremely slow and even time out. Yet if I disable it then they will load instantly. Anyone know what the problem is with that?

[Disasterpiece]

Originally Posted by joshskeety

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

Basically, take avatars and make them look like this:

http://www.drunkenbombers.com/forums...61197998610020

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

What do you think, DP?

You can actually do this with a few adjustments. Just include a variable where the online status is saved which you can then use in the postbit template and set the border color accordingly.

If you don't know how to do this, I might put something together.

Originally Posted by rockerzteam

That's where alot of coders have gone wrong. They forgot about all the happy 3.8.7 users and moved onto only 4.x.x

I am happy with 3.8.7 and have the option to upgrade but I don't like the new vbulletin.

Even if you made this a paid mod and made it available to 3.8.x alot of users that run gaming sites like myself would buy it.

That's a big maybe. I just don't feel that my time is good invested in developing/porting a huge addon for an outdated vb version.

Originally Posted by joshskeety

I stuck with 3.8.x for a while, because I didn't like how 4 looked style wise, but I've since found some nice styles for it and found it better than 3.8.x in many ways. You can't really fault a developer for only supporting the version he uses.

The style and look&feel is for most vb3 users the main reason to stick with vb3 instead of vb4 and that's just not a valid reason in my opinion.

Originally Posted by alex902602

For some reason this causes threads to load extremely slow and even time out. Yet if I disable it then they will load instantly. Anyone know what the problem is with that?

This has been fixed before. Are you 100% sure you're using the latest version and upgraded everything correctly?

[joshskeety]

Originally Posted by Disasterpiece

You can actually do this with a few adjustments. Just include a variable where the online status is saved which you can then use in the postbit template and set the border color accordingly.

If you don't know how to do this, I might put something together.

Yeah I'd appreciate that. I still can't figure out why the avatar is not always pulled for the Steam Account but done 100% of the time in the manage user area of the Admin CP. I'd like for the avatars to always display the users Steam Avatar if they are linked and act as the link to their Steam Page (+ the Online / Offline borders)

[joshskeety]

Getting that slow down issue. Viewing threads or User Profiles is taking a *very* long time.

[unit12stealth]

This will work with 4.2.0, right?

[Dinnoosaur]

Hi
I'm new and testing vBulletin.
I got specials chars in my steam name. And when your add-on has created my user. Does is show my name like this: Ƈrazy Ƈhicken [Ɗƙ]
It should have been something like Crazy Chicken [DK].

Dinnoosaur

[Disasterpiece]

Originally Posted by Dinnoosaur

Hi
I'm new and testing vBulletin.
I got specials chars in my steam name. And when your add-on has created my user. Does is show my name like this: Ƈrazy Ƈhicken [Ɗƙ]
It should have been something like Crazy Chicken [DK].

Dinnoosaur

If that's the way steam transmits the username, then that's what's going into the username field. You can control which characters may be used in usernames in the vbulletin options.

[Dinnoosaur]

Originally Posted by Dinnoosaur

Hi
I'm new and testing vBulletin.
I got specials chars in my steam name. And when your add-on has created my user. Does is show my name like this: ?‡razy ?‡hicken [?Š?™]
It should have been something like Crazy Chicken [DK].

Dinnoosaur

Solution found set "HTML Character Set" to "utf-8".
now my name is shown right: Ƈrazy Ƈhicken [Ɗƙ]