Installation

You will need

Server with installed SSL certificate
VK service token
Telegram bot and it's api key
Telegram Channel(of course you will need to add bot to administrators of your channel)

About security

It's highly recommended to hide your bot from web. (e.g you site.com directory is /var/www/site.com, so don't place bot in that directory place it in /var/www/console/)

Installation [production]

!IMPORTANT! you need SSL certificate on your server
git clone https://github.com/lgg/vk-to-telegram-bot && cd vk-to-telegram-bot
composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader
composer dump-autoload
rename Config-sample.php to Config.php
then configure Config.php
!IMPORTANT! watch repository for 'config' updates
add task to cron(usually you have crontab on your server)
- if you have crontab - run crontab -e from web user(usually webadmin or www-data)
- add */5 * * * * cd /var/www/console/vk-to-telegram-bot && php index.php >> /dev/null 2>&1
- you should change cd command to path where your bot is located
- this will run bot every 5 minutes, if you need every minute check - replace */5 to *
if you want to clear your logs add task for clear.php with php clear.php?clear