https://github.com/olaviinha/php-telegram-bot
Regular PHP Telegram bot
https://github.com/olaviinha/php-telegram-bot
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Regular PHP Telegram bot
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/olaviinha/php-telegram-bot
- Owner: olaviinha
- Created: 2023-01-01T11:35:32.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-09-06T04:48:38.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-03T14:13:13.538Z (over 1 year ago)
- Topics: bot, telegram, telegram-bot
- Language: PHP
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- Size: 60.5 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# PHP Telegram Bot
## Minimal bot example
[minimal_tg_bot_example.php](https://github.com/olaviinha/PHP-Telegram-Bot/blob/main/minimal_tg_bot_example.php) is a fully functional Telegram bot written in PHP with a single example command. Leaving it here solely because a file like this would have helped me when I started to make a bot from scratch, so hopefully it will help someone else. To make the file function as a bot in Telegram, see [Setup](#setup).
## Regular bot example
The rest of the files in this repository represent a fully functional, rationally structured bot written in PHP, with a few minimal example commands. Note that this bot uses flat files (in `logs/` dir) instead of a database for all features that require logging or saving data of any kind.
- All the important settings and commands are listed neatly in `index.php`.
- Code of each command (when needed) is listed in, and included from, `commands/` dir.
- `sys_gpt.php` contains the _necessities_ to utilize GPT3 or GPT4 (chatGPT). I think it currently does not contain e.g. remembering past convos – will add that later.
- `sys_global_functions.php` contains all the necessary PHP functions.
- Localization can be found in `sys_locale.php` – it is perhaps not the best way to do localization out there, but it works as long as your bot has one main language.
## Setup
Whether you use just `minimal_tg_bot_example.php` or the whole repository, you must setup your bot as follows:
1. Create a new bot in Telegram using [@BotFather](https://t.me/BotFather) (Telegram's own official bot for that purpose).
2. @BotFather will provide you a token. Place token in the PHP file.
3. Place PHP file on a public server.
4. Set write permission to `logs` dir (i.e. `chown -R www-data:www-data logs`) if you want to enable features and commands that require any kind of logging.
5. In the URL below, replace `{my_bot_token}` with your token, `{url_to_this_PHP_file}` with the URL to the PHP file located on your server (index.php or minimal_tg_bot_example.php from this repo) and just open the full URL in your browser:
```
https://api.telegram.org/bot{my_bot_token}/setWebhook?url={url_to_this_PHP_file}/
```