To send a message to a Telegram channel using PHP, you need to know a Telegram API token and a chat ID, that you will get when you create a Telegram bot.
This note shows the PHP code examples for sending messages, images and other data types to the Telegram channel through API.
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Send Message to Telegram using PHP
To send a message to the Telegram channel use the following PHP script example:
<?php
$apiToken = "5082654068:AAF7quCLZ4xuTq2FBdo3POssdJsM_FRHwTs";
$data = [
'chat_id' => '515382482',
'text' => 'Hello from PHP!'
];
$response = file_get_contents("https://api.telegram.org/bot$apiToken/sendMessage?" .
http_build_query($data) );
?>
You can create a telegram-send-message.php script with the code above and run it from a command line as follows:
$ php telegram-send-message.php
In case of the error below, look at your php.ini, search for extension=openssl and if it is disabled (commented with a semi-colon), enable it and restart a web server if you use one:
Warning: file_get_contents(): Unable to find the wrapper “https” – did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? in <path> on line 9
Warning: file_get_contents(https://api.telegram.org/…): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in <path> on line 9
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To send messages to the Telegram channel through a web form, you can create an HTML page with the PHP code as follows:
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submitButton'])){
$apiToken = "5082654068:AAF7quCLZ4xuTq2FBdo3POssdJsM_FRHwTs";
$data = [
'chat_id' => '515382482',
'text' => $_POST['inputMessage']
];
$response = file_get_contents("https://api.telegram.org/bot$apiToken/sendMessage?" .
http_build_query($data) );
}
?>
<html>
<body>
<form action="" method="post">
<input type="text" name="inputMessage"/>
<input type="submit" name="submitButton"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
To play with this web form locally, you can create the index.php file with the code above and execute this command within the same folder to start the built-in development server:
$ php -S localhost:8000
- sample output -
[Fri Jan 1 01:48:43 2033] PHP 7.4.3 Development Server (http://localhost:8000) started
Then open your web browser and go to http://localhost:8000, which will show you the web form for sending the messages to the Telegram channel.
You can also send images, video, audio, documents, etc. to the Telegram channel through API using PHP.
For example, to send an image to the Telegram channel, use the PHP code as follows:
<?php
$apiToken = "5082654068:AAF7quCLZ4xuTq2FBdo3POssdJsM_FRHwTs";
$data = [
'chat_id' => '515382482',
'photo' => 'https://en.wikipedia.org/static/images/project-logos/enwiki.png'
];
$response = file_get_contents("https://api.telegram.org/bot$apiToken/sendPhoto?" .
http_build_query($data) );
?>
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what if it is multiple input like name email gender and message
Then, you have to use all inputs to create a variable:
$text = ‘hello’ . $_POST[‘name’] . ‘. your age is: ‘ . $_POST[‘age’] . ‘. ‘;
and replace:
‘text’ => $_POST[‘inputMessage’]
with:
‘text’ => $text
do you know how to make the multiple data is in the newline for the each data?
any chance you can create a tutorial for sendvideo? i’m using wamp and its not working :/