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Peter Newman
Peter Newman

Reputation: 91

Telegram bot API: Can I mix a custom keyboard and a force_reply?

I have a custom keyboard but to process the answer i need a force reply so i get the question back in the next message. I have done this:

var opts = {
    reply_markup: JSON.stringify({ 
        keyboard: [['OK','Cancel']],
        one_time_keyboard: true,
        resize_keyboard: true,
        force_reply: true
    })
};

The keyboard works but not the force_reply. Force reply on its own works? Can i not use it in combination with a custom keyboard?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 13259

Answers (2)

Hamed
Hamed

Reputation: 595

You need to specify your markup like this :

$replyMarkup = array(
  'force_reply' => true,
  'selective' => true
);

If you need to have custom keyboard you can follow this :

$keyboradsValue = array(
   array("button 1","button 2"),
   array("button 3","button 4"),
);
$replyMarkup = array(
  'keyboard' => $keyboradsValue,
  'force_reply' => true,
  'selective' => true
);

After that you need to encode your object using json_encode 

$encodedMarkup = json_encode($replyMarkup, true);

Finally you just put above code at your query string at the rest of sendMessage.

Upvotes: 2

Ruben Bermudez
Ruben Bermudez

Reputation: 2323

It may be late to help you, but here it goes.

Currently only one reply_markup field is allow and this field must contain only one of the following types: ReplyKeyboardMarkup or ReplyKeyboardHide or ForceReply (see docs)

In any case, you can use ReplyKeyboardMarkup that will pop up a custom keyboard in the user app directly and code your bot so it only accept one of the answer in your own custom keyboards.

Furthermore, if you really want to force that the user reply, you can keep sending the same ReplyKeyboardMarkup after each user's invalid answer.

Upvotes: 7

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