How to use Commands

[HalimZamal]

I tried to use Commands..
first I created folder called "cmd" in root and then in webhook I enabled

$COMMANDS_FOLDER = DIR.'/cmd/';
$telegram->addCommandsPath($COMMANDS_FOLDER);

for example I want to try to use ForcereplyCommand.php in cmd folder. But I confused how to register the class and how to use that in another file.

please give me an idea to solved this..?

[noplanman]

I'm not sure how experienced you are with PHP, so I'll try to make it as simple as possible 😊

Right, the path you're looking for is $COMMANDS_FOLDER = __DIR__ . '/cmd/'.
This line should be added to your hook.php file!

__DIR__ represents the current directory of the file being executed. To see which path is being set, just add this line directly after it: die($COMMANDS_FOLDER); When you visit the page now, you should see just a line of text that should be the path to your cmd folder. Make any changes if necessary and when the path is the correct one, remove the die(...); line.

Now for the fun part, the command.

For your example, the easiest would be to copy the file /php-telegram-bot/src/Commands/EchoCommand.php into your cmd folder. Rename it to ForcereplyCommand.php.

Now you can open it to edit the code.
Start off by renaming the class to ForcereplyCommand and by changing the values of the class variables ($name, $description, etc.). Your $name would be forcereply.

The execute method is what gets called when someone sends the command to your bot.
Here you can set the $text variable to whatever should be sent back to the user.

Now, when you send /forcereply to your bot, the text you've saved in $text will be sent back to you.

Let me know how it's going so far 😃

[HalimZamal]

I've tried but the bot didn't respond my command, nothing happen after I send /forcereply

this is my class and function

 class ForcereplyCommand extends Command
 {
    protected $name = 'forcereply';
    protected $description = 'Show text';
    protected $usage = '/forcereply';
    protected $version = '1.0.0';
    protected $enabled = true;
    protected $public = true;

    public function execute()
    {
        $update = $this->getUpdate();
        $message = $this->getMessage();

        $chat_id = $message->getChat()->getId();
        $text = 'Here is the message';

        $data = [];
        $data['chat_id'] = $chat_id;
        $data['text'] = $text;

        $result = Request::sendMessage($data);
        return $result->isOk();
    }
}

Am I wrong.. ?

[noplanman]

No, that looks correct.

When you send the /help command, is your /forcereply command listed?

Does your bot respond with any answer at all when you send /forcereply?
edit: You mentioned in your message that nothing gets returned

[HalimZamal]

I've tried to use getUpdateCLI not hook.. and everything is working the bot replied.. but when I used webhook.. nothing happened..

what's wrong?

[noplanman]

Are you by any chance using a self signed SSL certificate?

[HalimZamal]

No i'm not,,, I used heroku for deploying in https environment...

[noplanman]

You set the webhook correctly using your modified set.php, yes?

[HalimZamal]

yes..

[noplanman]

Have you checked the TelegramException.log and the your-bot-name.log in the root directory?
You can rename/delete them first, then try the command again.
If they get regenerated, could you please share their contents so we can see what's happening, thanks.

[HalimZamal]

my-bot-name.log is empty .. but in TelegramException.log I found

#1 {main}
2016-02-07 04:25:48 exception 'Longman\TelegramBot\Exception\TelegramException' with message 'Input is empty!' in D:\xampp\htdocs\telegram5\vendor\longman\telegram-bot\src\Telegram.php:383
Stack trace:
#0 D:\xampp\htdocs\telegram5\webhook.php(29): Longman\TelegramBot\Telegram->handle()
#1 {main}

I've deploy in local first and then push into heroku to run set.php and then I tried to send message to the bot.. after that I clone from heroku and found something like above..

when I write
$telegram->addCommandsPath($COMMANDS_FOLDER);
die($COMMANDS_FOLDER);

I only get
/app/cmd/

[noplanman]

There might be an issue with your webhook.php file. It looks like the input that is provided by the Telegram API isn't getting through to your hook properly.

Could you please share your webhook.php file (removing any private info).

[HalimZamal]

This is my webhook.php

$loader = require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';
$API_KEY = 'Bot Token here';
$BOT_NAME = 'namebot';
$COMMANDS_FOLDER = __DIR__.'/cmd/';

/*$credentials = [
    'host'=>'localhost',
    'user'=>'username',
    'password'=>'',
    'database'=>''
];
*/

try {
// create Telegram API object
$telegram = new Longman\TelegramBot\Telegram($API_KEY, $BOT_NAME);

//$telegram->enableMySQL($credentials);

// Log Telegram messages
$telegram->setLogRequests(true);
$telegram->setLogPath($BOT_NAME.'.log');
$telegram->setLogVerbosity(1);
// Custom commands folder
$telegram->addCommandsPath($COMMANDS_FOLDER);
die($COMMANDS_FOLDER);
// handle telegram webhook request
$telegram->handle();
} catch (Longman\TelegramBot\Exception\TelegramException $e) {
// log telegram errors
echo $e->getMessage();
}

[noplanman]

Remove the line die($COMMANDS_FOLDER); and try again please.

The rest looks fine to me.

[HalimZamal]

still same the bot doesn't replied the command..

[noplanman]

In you set.php you've entered the correct URL to the webhook.php file, right?
And it's publicly accessible, yes?