Username issues - Contrib.social

$userInfos = [ 'name' => "steam-$steamCommunityId", 'pass' => '', 'status' => 1, 'field_steam64id' => $steamCommunityId, 'field_steam_username' => urlencode($steamNickname), ];

$userInfos = [ 'name' => $steamNickname, 'pass' => '', 'status' => 1, 'field_steam64id' => $steamCommunityId, 'field_steam_username' => $steamNickname, 'field_steam_avatar' => $avatarUrl, // Store avatar URL in custom field (not part of this fix) ];

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Issue created by @machin3
Comment 19 days ago →
🇫🇷France MacSim
My first thought is we should introduce a hook so you can alter the data before the user is saved and right after $userInfos has been built.
This would allow you to add this field_steam_avatar which is provided on your side and is not part of the module.

About urlencode(), I have to make new tests ; last time I did, my steam nickname was sent as Re|<oNe instead of Re|<oNe
Comment 19 days ago →
machin3
About urlencode(), I have to make new tests ; last time I did, my steam nickname was sent as Re|<oNe instead of Re|

That is how it turned out for my name with the bio symbols using urlencode(). I believe steam altered the output because of this issue with external databases not reading names correctly. I have this issue still with game mods sending out usernames to external systems and they don't understand each other. The plain text format steam is now using is much better with that.

The steam avatar one is kinda rigged in at the moment as I used a link type as I wasn't sure how I was going to be able to get that information. Then I had to come up with a decode function to strip Drupals auto link format so I can use just the URL. A simple text field would have been much easier.