Send a Message in Telegram in App Events

Telegram is an amazing platform to get notifications quickly. In order to do so, follow these instructions:

• Navigate to the backend of your site and go to Voxel > App Events.
• Click on the notification you want to have sent via Twilio.
• Open the accordion and click on “Advanced”.
• Copy all of that information and paste it into the functions.php file of your Voxel Child Theme. If you do not have a child theme setup, visit this article to learn how.
• Where it says “// your custom code…” paste the following code and get rid of the “// your custom code…”

How to get a bot token:

• Go to the @BotFather bot
• Send the command /token
• Select the bot you need a token for
• Connect the bot with IM
• Copy the token
• Create a channel on the Telegram IM Module

    // Telegram Bot API token and chat ID
    $telegram_bot_token = 'YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN';
    $telegram_chat_id = 'YOUR_TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID';

    // Post title from the event
    $post_title = $event->post->get_title();

    // Message content
    $message_content = '"' . $post_title . '" website has been submitted.';

    // Telegram API URL
    $url = "https://api.telegram.org/bot$telegram_bot_token/sendMessage";

    // Setup request to send JSON via POST
    $data = array(
        'chat_id' => $telegram_chat_id,
        'text' => $message_content,
    );
    $post = json_encode($data);

    // Set up cURL
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json'));
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);

    // Send the request and get the response
    $response = curl_exec($ch);
    $error = curl_error($ch);
    $http_status = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

    // Close cURL session handle
    curl_close($ch);

    // Check for errors and process the response
    if ($error) {
        error_log('Curl error: ' . $error);
    } else {
        // Process the response as needed
        error_log('Telegram API response: ' . $response);
    }

Be sure to change the TOKENs in the code to your own and the message content as needed.