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 \Vdomah\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