badfarm / Zanzara

Asynchronous PHP Telegram Bot Framework built on top of ReactPHP

Features

• Long polling support (no webserver required)
• Middleware chain for requests
• Conversations and sessions (no database required)
• Based on ReactPHP asynchronous non-blocking I/O model
• Scheduled functions/timers provided by ReactPHP
• Bulk message sending (no more 429 annoying errors)
• Full Telegram Bot Api 5.0 support (November 2020)

Installation

composer require badfarm/zanzara

Quickstart

Create a file named bot.php and paste the following code:

<?php

use Zanzara\Zanzara;
use Zanzara\Context;

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

$bot = new Zanzara("YOUR-BOT-TOKEN");

$bot->onCommand('start', function (Context $ctx) {
    $ctx->sendMessage('Hello');
});

$bot->run();

Then run it from command line as follows:

$ php bot.php

Enjoy your bot!

Check Wiki for documentation.