pretzelhands / basic-telegram-bot

A basic Telegram bot written in PHP

🤖 Telegram Base Bot in PHP

This bot demonstrates how to implement a basic Telegram chat bot in PHP, as described in this article.

📦 Requirements

To fully take advantage of this repository, the following dependencies should be met

• PHP 7.2+
• Installed beyondcode/expose

👩‍💻 Getting started

To get started, adjust composer.json and add a --subdomain=<YOUR_SUBDOMAIN> option to the dev script.

Second, update the WEBHOOK_URL variable in .env to correspond to <YOUR_SUBDOMAIN>.sharedwithexpose.com.

Once that is settled, please gather a Telegram token from @Botfather on Telegram and add it to the provided .env file. Then, your own Telegram chat ID using @RawDataBot and insert it as well.

Finally, run the following things:

$ composer install
$ php setup.php
$ composer run dev

After running these commands you should have received a message from your bot stating that your webhook has been set up correctly. You can now begin adding commands to your bot!

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