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Mahmood Kohansal
Mahmood Kohansal

Reputation: 1041

Telegram bot - api methods not working on server

I am trying to create a Telegram Bot. I follow this video. my codes are working in localhost, but when I put them on server the result is different. this code just call getUpdates method of Telegram api.

Code :

<?php 

    $botToken = "146158152:AAHO**********-L3xF08RN7H0xK8E";
    $website = "https://api.telegram.org/bot".$botToken;

    $update = file_get_contents($website."/getUpdates");

    var_dump($update);

?>

Localhost result :

string(616) "{"ok":true,"result":[{"update_id":35****293, "message":{"message_id":1,"from":{"id":95*****4,"first_name":"Mahmood","last_name":"Kohansal","username":"mahmoodkohansal"},"chat":{"id":95*****4,"first_name":"Mahmood","last_name":"Kohansal","username":"mahmoodkohansal","type":"private"},"date":1448737853,"text":"\/start"}},{"update_id":356676294, "message":{"message_id":2,"from":{"id":95*****4,"first_name":"Mahmood","last_name":"Kohansal","username":"mahmoodkohansal"},"chat":{"id":95881214,"first_name":"Mahmood","last_name":"Kohansal","username":"mahmoodkohansal","type":"private"},"date":1448737855,"text":"1"}}]}"

and Server result :

bool(false)

Sorry for my poor English.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3448

Answers (2)

Mahmood Kohansal
Mahmood Kohansal

Reputation: 1041

PHP file_get_contents method was the problem. I found the same problem with this method here, and use the solution to solve my problem.

Upvotes: 0

Haider Ali
Haider Ali

Reputation: 964

If your code works in localhost, the first assumption would be that your server was not successful in establishing a connection to the bot api. Perhaps you should put it in an if statement.

$token = "your token";
$website = "https://api.telegram.org/bot".$token;

if($updates = file_get_contents($website."/getUpdates"))
{
  echo "Connection made";
}
else
{
  echo "Fail";
}

Also can you make sure a webHook isn't set? getUpdates method does not return results if a webHook is set.

Upvotes: 1

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