theone74 / oc-telegram-plugin

Use this plugin for OctoberCMS to make Telegram bot or simple notifications

This plugin allows you to integrate functions of Telegram bots to your website and send data to users, groups or channels.

Big thanks to

• Longman https://github.com/akalongman/php-telegram-bot
• Yurasov Max (aka Diz)

Applications:

• Make important notifications about site events to your Telegram application (desktop and mobile devices)
• Receive messages and command from users and answer them
• Send messages to groups, chat rooms, channels (like news or some kind of information or statistic)
• Show keyboard, built-in keyboard
• All list in the official doc

Create bot

Follow this steps to create bot and receive token.

Configure plugin

• (required) Set Telegram token
• (required) Set bot name
• (required) Set webhook checkbox, it enables receive message from Telegram.
• (optional) Db encoding. Select your db encoding.
• (optional) Set certificate path if you use self-signed ssl certificate.
• (optional) Select admin users. (example)
• (optional) Botan.io analitycs

Simple notifications

Use plugin to send notification over telegram. To do that:

• Configure telegram bot account in the backend panel, go to Settings -> Telegram -> Bot settings
• Add at the top of your controller or page code use \TheOne74\Telegram\Classes\TelegramApi;
• Get your chat_id from Telegram -> Chats
• Send message with

TelegramApi::instance()->sendMessage(['chat_id'=>chat_id, 'text'=>'new order was submitted']);

Create bot behaviour

To be coninued