Hi everyone! Today we are going to understand how to send data from html form to Telegram?

You know what a feedback form is (I’m sure). They are used everywhere – even where they are not really needed. And you also know what Telegram is – a very convenient (probably the most convenient nowadays) messenger, and in general – a superstructure over the Internet. In general, I will not spread on the tree, I will tell you how to make a feedback form, the data from which will go to Telegram.
To do this, we will need:
1. Create a bot.
2. Create a group, to which we should join our freshly created bot from point 1
3. Create a feedback form that will be on our site. For example, the form will look like this (it’s just a form, it won’t do anything – you don’t have to press the button hard 🙂 ):

 

To be honest, I’m too lazy to bother right now, so the form consists of only one field, and a button 🙂
So, we have the form, and now let’s deal with the code that will send data from the html-form to Telegram. The code looks as simple as possible:

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The logic of the code itself is as follows:
1. We know that we can work with Telegram by sending commands to its api via the browser address bar.
2. So all we need to do is:
– know the token of our bot (we get it at the moment of bot creation)
– know the chat_id (it is very easy to get the chat_id by following the link:
https://api.telegram.org/botTOKEN>/getUpdates, only instead of TOKEN put the token you got when you created your bot 😉
And yes – if you suddenly follow the link and get something like:
{“ok”:true,”result”:[]}
add your bot to your group, where the html form messages will be sent 😉 )
– generate a summary string that will contain:
— a link to Telegram API
— bot token
— command for the bot (in our case – sendMessage
— chat_id (where and how to get it I wrote a few lines above)
— text encoding mode
— and, actually, the text itself, which we need to get from the html-form.

Let’s do all of this:
– chat_id — check
– token — check
– link to Telegram API – there
– text that we get from html-form – is there (we get it here: $text = ‘Text from html-form: ‘.$_POST[‘input_text_box’];
It remains to generate the summary string for the browser:
$url = ‘https://api.telegram.org/bot’.$token.’/sendMessage?chat_id=’.$chat_id.’&parse_mode=html&text=’.$text;

and pass this string to the browser:

$handle = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($handle);
header('Location: https://lavrynenko.com/form_to_telegram.html');

You can try all this in working form at this link 🙂 Go to it – you’ll see an html form where you enter text and submit.

However – you don’t have to follow the link… here is the form in a frame 🙂 :

I watch sometimes as people write something in the form, but don’t add to the group to see how the text goes there from the form. Reminder – here is the group: https://t.me/html_to_telegram – go here, and see how your texts sent from the form appear there 😉
IMPORTANT:
Want to make sure that the text sent via html-form reaches Telegram? No problem – join the group and watch the bot output everything you wrote in the html form in Telegram chat to this group.

HOW IMPORTANT: if suddenly your message didn’t get to the group – write to me in Telegram or mail. I will correct it 🙂

As always – if you have any questions, write to email, or to Telegram.