Sending message in telegram bot with images

Question

I have telegram-bot code on php, and reply messages sending by replyWithMessage method.

All command here:

 $this->replyWithMessage([\'te         


        

Answer 1

No, You CAN send a text that contains photo in one single message. Telegram allows you do this but that the way is kinda tricky.

1. Using https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendmessage method, set option disable_web_page_preview => false
2. In your text data put an image link with invisible character(s) inside your message text.

Example:

$message = << ‏ 
TEXT;

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Content-Type: multipart/form-data']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.telegram.org/bot/sendMessage');
$postFields = array(
    'chat_id' => '@username',
    'text' => $message,
    'parse_mode' => 'HTML',
    'disable_web_page_preview' => false,
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postFields);
if(!curl_exec($ch))
    echo curl_error($ch);
curl_close($ch);