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
Follow this steps to create bot and receive token.
- (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
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_idfrom Telegram -> Chats - Send message with
TelegramApi::instance()->sendMessage(['chat_id'=>chat_id, 'text'=>'new order was submitted']);
To be coninued