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title: User
description: constructors and methods of type User
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## Type: User
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The following syntaxes can also be used:
```
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$User = '@username'; // Username
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$User = 44700; // bot API id (users)
$User = -492772765; // bot API id (chats)
$User = -10038575794; // bot API id (channels)
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$User = 'user#44700'; // tg-cli style id (users)
$User = 'chat#492772765'; // tg-cli style id (chats)
$User = 'channel#38575794'; // tg-cli style id (channels)
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```
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A [Chat ](Chat.md ), a [User ](User.md ), an [InputPeer ](InputPeer.md ), an [InputUser ](InputUser.md ), an [InputChannel ](InputChannel.md ), a [Peer ](Peer.md ), or a [Chat ](Chat.md ) object can also be used.
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### Possible values (constructors):
### Methods that return an object of this type (methods):
[$MadelineProto->users->getUsers ](../methods/users_getUsers.md )