Method: messages.sendMessage

Sends a message to a chat

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Required
no_webpage	Bool	Set this flag to disable generation of the webpage preview	Optional
silent	Bool	Send this message silently (no notifications for the receivers)	Optional
background	Bool	Send this message as background message	Optional
clear_draft	Bool	Clear the draft field	Optional
noforwards	Bool	Only for bots, disallows forwarding and saving of the messages, even if the destination chat doesn’t have content protection enabled	Optional
update_stickersets_order	Bool		Optional
peer	Username, chat ID, Update, Message or InputPeer	The destination where the message will be sent	Optional
reply_to_msg_id	int	The message ID to which this message will reply to	Optional
top_msg_id	int		Optional
message	string	The message	Yes
reply_markup	ReplyMarkup	Reply markup for sending bot buttons	Optional
entities	Array of MessageEntity	Message entities for sending styled text	Optional
parse_mode	string	Whether to parse HTML or Markdown markup in the message	Optional
schedule_date	int	Scheduled message date for scheduled messages	Optional
send_as	Username, chat ID, Update, Message or InputPeer	Send this message as the specified peer	Optional

Return type: Updates

Can bots use this method: YES

MadelineProto Example (now async for huge speed and parallelism!):

if (!file_exists('madeline.php')) {
    copy('https://phar.madelineproto.xyz/madeline.php', 'madeline.php');
}
include 'madeline.php';

$MadelineProto = new \danog\MadelineProto\API('session.madeline');
$MadelineProto->start();

// PHP 8+ syntax, use an array on PHP 7.
$Updates = $MadelineProto->messages->sendMessage(no_webpage: Bool, silent: Bool, background: Bool, clear_draft: Bool, noforwards: Bool, update_stickersets_order: Bool, peer: InputPeer, reply_to_msg_id: int, top_msg_id: int, message: 'string', reply_markup: ReplyMarkup, entities: [MessageEntity, MessageEntity], parse_mode: 'string', schedule_date: int, send_as: InputPeer, );

Usage of reply_markup

You can provide bot API reply_markup objects here.

Return value

If the length of the provided message is bigger than 4096, the message will be split in chunks and the method will be called multiple times, with the same parameters (except for the message), and an array of Updates will be returned instead.

Usage of parseMode:

Set parseMode to html to enable HTML parsing of the message.

Set parseMode to Markdown to enable markown AND html parsing of the message.

The following tags are currently supported:

<br>a newline
<b><i>bold works ok, internal tags are stripped</i> </b>
<strong>bold</strong>
<em>italic</em>
<i>italic</i>
<u>underline</u>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<code>inline fixed-width code</code>
<pre>pre-formatted fixed-width code block</pre>
<blockquote>pre-formatted fixed-width code block</blockquote>
<a href="https://github.com">URL</a>
<a href="mention:@danogentili">Mention by username</a>
<a href="mention:186785362">Mention by user id</a>
<pre language="json">Pre tags can have a language attribute</pre>

You can also use normal markdown, note that to create mentions you must use the mention: syntax like in html:

[Mention by username](mention:@danogentili)
[Mention by user id](mention:186785362)

MadelineProto supports all html entities supported by html_entity_decode.