[PHP] Telegram Notification

It's easy PHP implementation to start sending any messages to you via Telegram Bot.

Setup guide

Create bot in Telegram and get CHAT_ID & ACCESS_TOKEN

• Go to https://t.me/BotFather
• Create new bot
• Get bot Access Token for HTTP API.

Access Token looks like: 5412345653:AAFv-vBifIioO6XDj5OJcmLghhMbdI3ERR8

Save it, we will use it in env configuration section

• Start bot chatting

Go to Telegram and copy the name of the bot (that you set during bot creating) to the search field and start bot chatting.

Write anything to the bot

• Get chat id for this bot:

• Go to the link https://api.telegram.org/bot<ACCESS_TOKEN>/getUpdates

Example: https://api.telegram.org/bot5412345653:AAFv-vBifIioO6XDj5OJcmLghhMbdI3ERR8/getUpdates

• Get CHAT_ID from response

Chat id is storing in 'id' json path: result->message->chat->id

{
    "ok": true,
    "result": [
        {
            "update_id": "",
            "message": {
                "message_id": "",
                "from": {...},
                "chat": {
                    "id": "chat_id_here"
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

Now you know your CHAT_ID & ACCESS_TOKEN, let's start configuring env.php

Set configuration

• Copy ENV file

cp env.php.sample env.php

• Add needed env configuration to env.php file

'bot_api_token' => '5412345653:AAFv-vBifIioO6XDj5OJcmLghhMbdI3ERR8',//add ACCESS_TOKEN
'parse_mode'    => 'markdown',
'chat_id'       => '123420',//add CHAT_ID

Usage

Test sending message to you bot

php ./Ping.php

🎉🎊🎉 Done! You are ready to send messages to Telegram BOT.