blaze/blazing

PHP Telegram Bot SDK

Blazing

Telegram bot php SDK

• Installing, _(*1)

  • Install php (7.0 or higher recommend)
  • Install composer

• Create a new project, _(*2)

  • In terminal (cmd) run composer create-project blaze/blazingsdk <project-name>
  • Wait till all dependencies are installed

• Create a new Bot, _(*3)

  • Go to project folder ( cd <project-name> )
  • composer new bot <bot-name> <bot-api-token>
  • A new folder with the bot name inside project folder should be created now.

• (optional) using laravel’s database module (eloquent) with bots, _(*4)

  • Refer to How to use eloquent outside laravel
  • An easier was to use eloquent is planned for future.

• At this point bot will be already configured to respond to /start and /help commands with some default response. You can edit these response from commands.php file inside your bot's directory, _(*5)

• To add support for more commands add a new method to Commands class (commands.php file). The method should be static (will be changed later) and method name should be the first word of the command. The method should also accept 2 arguments a bot object and a message object., _(*6)

  • Eg: if you are adding support for /hello command your method should look like, _(*7)

    • public static function hello(Bot $bot, Message $msg) { }

  • Note a command doesn't necessarily have to be in the beginning of a msg to be sent to commands.php. you can change this from updates.php, _(*8)

• If you want bot to respond to CallBackQueries you have add a method to CallBackQueries class (CallBackQueries.php file). The method should be static and its name should be the first word of callback query’s data. The method should also accept 2 arguments, a bot object and a CallBackQuery object., _(*9)

  • Eg: if you are adding support for a call back query with first word of data as 'hello' your method should look like, _(*10)

    • public static function hello(Bot $bot, CallBackQuery $cbq) { }

  • You can also edit updates.php file to customize the way you want to handle commands, CallBackQueries and other types of bot update objects., _(*11)

• For the telegram api objects (Message, chat user etc…) use get before api method as getters., _(*12)

  • Eg: to get message id, use $msg->getMessageId()
  • Case sentivity and underscores doesn't matter.

• To send requests to telegram api use sendRequest() method in bot class. This method accepts an array. The array must contain a method key and other parameters for the specified method., _(*13)

  • Eg: $bot->sendRequest (array( “method” => “sendMessage”, “chat_id” => $msg->getChat()->getId(), “text” => “some text” ));

If you need any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me (@BlazeMV) on telegram.

Developed with php by Adam Dawood (@BlazeMV)