Steam User Page Function

Posted by on Sep 18, 2010 in Blog, Portfolio

When trying to add a friend on steam through the application command “steam://friends/add/$id”, you must have the $id  set to the community ID. Yes, that is the long arse number that is impossible to remember. The following function I use to extract the Community ID by inputting the username of an individual.

Note: The user must define a username through steam for this to work.

PHP:

//Quick Use Example
$cusomtid = 'username'; //change username to the variable in your software.
$communityid = get_id($cusomtid);

//Show the link.
echo "<a href='steam://friends/add/".$communityid."'>Add Friend</a>";

//Function
function get_id($data){
            $data=strtolower(trim($data));
                    $xml = @simplexml_load_file("http://steamcommunity.com/id/".$data."?xml=1");
                    $steamid64=$xml->steamID64;
                    return $steamid64;
                }

Hope it is found usefull. :)