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	Whether to move used stickersets to top, see here for more info on this flag »	Optional
invert_media	Bool	If set, any eventual webpage preview will be shown on top of the message instead of at the bottom.	Optional
allow_paid_floodskip	Bool		Optional
peer	Username, chat ID, Update, Message or InputPeer	The destination where the message will be sent	Optional
reply_to	InputReplyTo	If set, indicates that the message should be sent in reply to the specified message or story.	Optional
message	string	The message	Optional
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
quick_reply_shortcut	InputQuickReplyShortcut		Optional
effect	long		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();

$Updates = $MadelineProto->messages->sendMessage(no_webpage: $Bool, silent: $Bool, background: $Bool, clear_draft: $Bool, noforwards: $Bool, update_stickersets_order: $Bool, invert_media: $Bool, allow_paid_floodskip: $Bool, peer: $InputPeer, reply_to: $InputReplyTo, message: 'string', reply_markup: $ReplyMarkup, entities: [$MessageEntity, $MessageEntity], parse_mode: 'string', schedule_date: $int, send_as: $InputPeer, quick_reply_shortcut: $InputQuickReplyShortcut, effect: $long, );

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 parse_mode:

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

Set parse_mode to Markdown to enable markdown 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>
<a href="tg://user?id=186785362">Mention by user id</a>
Custom emoji: <emoji id="5368324170671202286">👍</emoji>
Custom emoji: <tg-emoji emoji-id="5368324170671202286">👍</tg-emoji>
<pre language="json">Pre tags can have a language attribute</pre>
<spoiler>Spoiler</spoiler>
<tg-spoiler>Spoiler</tg-spoiler>

You can also use normal markdown (bot API MarkdownV2 syntax), note that to create mentions you can also use the mention: syntax like in html:

*bold \*text*
_italic \*text_
__underline__
~strikethrough~
||spoiler||
*bold _italic bold ~italic bold strikethrough ||italic bold strikethrough spoiler||~ __underline italic bold___ bold*
[inline URL](http://www.example.com/)
[inline mention of a user](tg://user?id=123456789)
![👍](tg://emoji?id=5368324170671202286)
\`inline fixed-width code\`
\`\`\`
pre-formatted fixed-width code block
\`\`\`
\`\`\`php
pre-formatted fixed-width code block written in the PHP programming language
\`\`\`

[Mention by username](mention:@danogentili)
[Mention by user id](mention:186785362)
[Mention by user id](tg://user?id=186785362)
[👍](emoji:5368324170671202286)
[👍](tg://emoji?id=5368324170671202286)