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Padideh
Padideh

Reputation: 149

telegram api send message return nothing

I want to send message via telegram api but it's not working, and not send any message. this is what i tried so far:

function sendTelegram($chatID, $msg) {
echo "sending message to " . $chatID . "\n";

$token = "botxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
$getUpdate = "http://api.telegram.org/" . $token . "/getUpdates";

$url = "https://api.telegram.org/" . $token . "/sendMessage?chat_id=" . $chatID;
$url = $url . "&text=" . urlencode($msg);
$ch = curl_init();
$optArray = array(
CURLOPT_URL => $url,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true
);
curl_setopt_array($ch, $optArray);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
}

$msg = "Hi";
$chatID = "88132232";

sendTelegram($chatID, $msg);

My progress:

  1. I made a new bot via @botfather and got a token.
  2. Then sent a message to this bot with my telegram.
  3. I got chat id in getUpdates.

https://api.telegram.org/botxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/getUpdates

and also send message via:

https://api.telegram.org/botxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/sendMessage?chat_id=88132232&text=hi

It works find when i go to this url but when i want to do this dynamically it give me nothing just echo sending message to 88132232 with no error. I searched and read many topics but no success, any idea what i missed? Before using curl i used get_file_contents but it also not worked.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2451

Answers (2)

Pedram
Pedram

Reputation: 16575

Probably you have error but in curl you should get curl error like this:

if(curl_error($ch)){
    echo 'error:' . curl_error($ch);
}

And most problem is SSL. get your error and back. but i tested your code, as @Sean said, your code working fine, try it on php fiddle website. if you get SSL error, read this.

Upvotes: 1

Sean Wei
Sean Wei

Reputation: 7985

You set CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER

CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER: TRUE to return the transfer as a string of the return value of curl_exec() instead of outputting it out directly.

Please return $result in sendTelegram() function, and echo it.

function sendTelegram($chatID, $msg) {
    // ...
    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $result;
}

$result = sendTelegram($chatID, $msg);
echo $result;   // JSON String

Upvotes: 1

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