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

[Disasterpiece]

Originally Posted by wtfaatp

Disaster would you like to do some testing with my fourms to see for yourself?

It's just really weird I see no reason for the added "-" or the improper math :\.
What really gets me if they do it comes out 100% perfect :\
Ugh I'm so lost.

Sure, send me the credentials per PM, maybe I can fix it from there.

Originally Posted by wtfaatp

Also about people wanting to use the steamid for other hacks. Maybe make it so that the admin has the option to create a custom user table and direct this to pust the steam id (maybe even any other information) in each table!? Thought maybe something you could offer up!

hmm, the steam64 id is in the usertable, it's in the $vbulletin->userinfo which is available from.. everywhere and there's even a getter function for this. Not sure what else I should add... it's already simple for other developers

[dopeytjen]

Will this work on the latest vB?

[Skyrider]

Originally Posted by dopeytjen

Will this work on the latest vB?

Yes, it does.

Everyone is welcome to alter/remove the register.php file by their own, unfortunately I can't provide support for that.
The login2.php has all the necessary steps to register an account with the steam login, so the register/login process should work even without the register.php file. No guarantee on that tho, I haven't checked that possibility yet.

It does, and I already modified the register.php to use the steam login link directly (redirect).. However, email validation still requires register.php to be intact to activate their account. And disabling new registrations also works partly, but before you can finish the forums says registrations is disabled.

I do wish however (if possible) that all people who use steam login to be moved to a new primary usergroup IF set in the AdminCP options regardless if they have registered before on the forums. We are having a team fortress 2 forums aimed for steam login, and I'm afraid people who already registered are not being moved to another usergroup if they link their steam account to their forum account even if the new usergroup (primary) has been set in your mod.

[Strategos]

Another suggestion.

If you don't want to modify the registration template, could you include something that allows to make it so certain users groups will go into certain other usergroups when connected?

like registered users > verified registered users
and
moderators > verified moderators

[Disasterpiece]

Originally Posted by Strategos

Another suggestion.

If you don't want to modify the registration template, could you include something that allows to make it so certain users groups will go into certain other usergroups when connected?

like registered users > verified registered users
and
moderators > verified moderators

I'll add an option to put users into usergroups on certain situations in the next update.

[Disasterpiece]

Just a short note for all Administrators with the 1.2.1 version:
I added the 1.2.2 version, which fixed a small bug in the admin interface, producing malformed Steam64-IDs when edited in the admincp.

No bigger upgrade necessary than importing the new product xml file, overwriting the older version.

[Strategos]

yay!

[wtfaatp]

Man thank you for this fix Now to make a fork for other mod's Again Thnx

[Strategos]

Oh and another important suggestion

You should make it so that you can choose which usergroups can unlink their steam accounts. It's easy for someone to troll, and unlink their account so that when you ban them they can re-link it.

Also, upgrading steam connect seems to reset the table of who has registered and who hasn't.

[Disasterpiece]

Originally Posted by Strategos

Oh and another important suggestion

You should make it so that you can choose which usergroups can unlink their steam accounts. It's easy for someone to troll, and unlink their account so that when you ban them they can re-link it.

That's a good suggestion. Will do in the next update.

Originally Posted by Strategos

Also, upgrading steam connect seems to reset the table of who has registered and who hasn't.

That shouldn't happen! Do you have backups? I'll check later if this might occur somehow, but it relies on the vbulletin upgrade system, wich only performs additional process and does nowhere remove any entries at all, or did you uninstall the plugin first? In this case the user table columns are dropped.