Sign in through Steam

[Chiller252]

Steam is an online entertainment platform that has 125 million active users that play games together as a gaming community. I have created a board for some game servers I'm hosting and was researching ways to add a 'Sign in through Steam' button that integrated with user's profiles and such.




Many other websites have this functionality and there is open access to the api, but I don't know enough about it let alone how to add it's functionality to ProBoards.


steamcommunity.com/dev/

developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_Web_API#GetPlayerSummaries_.28v0001.29

Perhaps the plugin can retrieve Steam user's Steam ID and Avatar and automatically add them to their new Forum Account among other things.

If someone is willing to undergo the process of developing a ProBoards plugin so that others can add this functionality to their forums, you will make so many people happy.

If I can get this to work in the form of a plugin or html modifications to the themes, I will then attempt to sync the forum ranks with user ranks on the game servers using MySQL, cross-checking user's Steam IDs.

I understand that a lot of people may not know what steam is, or they're not interested in developing something like this, but I'm hoping at least one of you is interested and motivated to work on this. 

If you have any questions/concerns/require extra information, don't hesitate to reply.

[Peter]

Only problem with plugins such as this, is that there needs to be a proxy.

Basically a proxy will be something on your server that listens for requests and sends back data based on what it's being asked that is pulled from the Steam API.

For example:

To fetch the avatar; The plugin would make a cross domain call to a script (i.e PHP) on your server and ask it to fetch the avatar for the Steam ID "xxx". The script then does its magic by connecting to the Steam API endpoints, fetch the needed data, then returning it back to the plugin in a format that can be parsed (i.e JSON).

If this request (and similar Steam requests) got more attention, I would consider it, but from experience, it likely won't.

There are a few other things to consider, but that's the general gist of it.  Maybe once v6 is released, I or someone else might consider doing it as a paid plugin (including proxy).

Sorry