Create a Telegram bot & send messages with PHP

This is how you can create a Telegram bot and send messages in 3 easy steps using PHP

Create Telegram bot

To create a Telegram bot you need to:

• Search for @BotFather in the Telegram app (Mobile or Desktop no difference)
• Send this message /newbot and follow the instructions to create the bot, it's super easy
• Get the token and store it somewhere safe, we'll use it in the code to send messages in a bit

Get Chat Id

To get your Chat Id you have to:

• Send a message to the bot that you just created, for me it's @Test1997Bot
• Go to your browser and type "https://api.telegram.org/bot(REPLACE-WITH-TOUR-BOT-TOKEN)/getUpdates"

You'll get a result like this

  {
   "result":[
      {
         "message":{
            "message_id":1,
            "from":{
               "id":9999999999
            },
            "chat":{
               "id":9999999999
            }
         }
      }
   ]
  }
  

You need to look for and copy chat → id and that's it, in this example it's 9999999999

Send messages using PHP

Now that we have everything we need let's code

    
    function sendTelegramMessage($message) {
      $token = '(REPLACE-WITH-YOUR-BOT-TOKEN)'; 
      $chatId = (REPLACE-WITH-YOUR-CHAT-ID);
      $url = 'https://api.telegram.org/bot' . $token . '/sendMessage';
      $data = array(
        'chat_id' => $chatId,
        'text' => $message
      );
      $options = array(
        'http' => array(
          'method' => 'POST',
          'header' => "Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
          'content' => http_build_query($data)
        )
      );
      $context = stream_context_create($options);
      $result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
      return $result;
    }
  

To send the message just run the function like this

  sendTelegramMessage('Hello World!');
  

if you want to learn more you can visit the official docs

... and we're done, easy right.