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