zyberspace/telegram-cli-client

php-client for telegram-cli

Requirements

• a running telegram-cli listening on a unix-socket (-S) or a port (-P). Needs to be configured already (phone-number, etc.).
• php >= 5.4.0

Usage

###Setup telegram-cli telegram-cli needs to run on a unix-socket (-S) or a port (-P), so telegram-cli-client can connect to it.
You should also start it with -W so the contact-list gets loaded on startup.
For this example we will take the following command (execute it from the dir, where you installed telegram-cli, not the php-client), -d lets it run as daemon.:

./bin/telegram-cli -dWS /tmp/tg.sck &

If you never started telegram-cli before, you need to start it first in normal mode, so you can type in your telegram-phone-number and register it, if needed (./bin/telegram-cli).

To stop the daemon use killall telegram-cli or kill -TERM [telegram-pid].

###Install telegram-cli-client with composer In your project-root:

composer require zyberspace/telegram-cli-client

Composer will then automatically add the package to your project requirements and install it (also creates the composer.json if you don't have one already).

###Use it

require('vendor/autoload.php');
$telegram = new \Zyberspace\Telegram\Cli\Client('unix:///tmp/tg.sck');

$contactList = $telegram->getContactList();
$telegram->msg($contactList[0], 'Hey man, what\'s up? :D');

Documentation

To create the docs, just run phpdoc in the the project-root.
An online-version is available at phpdoc.zyberware.org/zyberspace/telegram-cli-client.

Supported Commands

You can execute every command with the exec()-method, but there are also several command-wrappers available in the AbstractClientCommands-Class (doc-link), which the main class extends (see the example.php).

If you use exec() directly, please don't forget to escape the peer (contacts, chat-names, etc.) with escapePeer() and all string-arguments with escapeStringArgument() to avoid errors.

API-Stability

The api of the commands wrappers will definitely change in the future, for example getHistory() only returns the raw answer of the telegram-cli right now and is not really useful. Therefore you should not use this in production yet.

If you still want to use this in your project, make sure you stay at the same minor-version (~0.1.0 or 0.1.* for example).

License

This software is licensed under the Mozilla Public License v. 2.0. For more information, read the file LICENSE.