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---
title: messages.sendMessage
description: messages.sendMessage parameters, return type and example
---
## Method: messages.sendMessage
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### Parameters:
| Name | Type | Required |
|----------|---------------|----------|
|no\_webpage|[Bool](../types/Bool.md) | Optional|
|silent|[Bool](../types/Bool.md) | Optional|
|background|[Bool](../types/Bool.md) | Optional|
|clear\_draft|[Bool](../types/Bool.md) | Optional|
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|peer|[Username, chat ID, Update, Message or InputPeer](../types/InputPeer.md) | Optional|
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|reply\_to\_msg\_id|[int](../types/int.md) | Optional|
|message|[string](../types/string.md) | Yes|
|reply\_markup|[ReplyMarkup](../types/ReplyMarkup.md) | Optional|
|entities|Array of [MessageEntity ](../types/MessageEntity.md ) | Optional|
|parse\_mode| [string ](../types/string.md ) | Optional |
### Return type: [Updates](../types/Updates.md)
### Can bots use this method: **YES**
### Errors this method can return:
| Error | Description |
|----------|---------------|
|BUTTON_DATA_INVALID|The provided button data is invalid|
|BUTTON_TYPE_INVALID|The type of one of the buttons you provided is invalid|
|BUTTON_URL_INVALID|Button URL invalid|
|CHANNEL_INVALID|The provided channel is invalid|
|CHANNEL_PRIVATE|You haven't joined this channel/supergroup|
|CHAT_ADMIN_REQUIRED|You must be an admin in this chat to do this|
|CHAT_ID_INVALID|The provided chat id is invalid|
|ENTITY_MENTION_USER_INVALID|You can't use this entity|
|INPUT_USER_DEACTIVATED|The specified user was deleted|
|MESSAGE_EMPTY|The provided message is empty|
|MESSAGE_TOO_LONG|The provided message is too long|
|PEER_ID_INVALID|The provided peer id is invalid|
|REPLY_MARKUP_INVALID|The provided reply markup is invalid|
|USER_BANNED_IN_CHANNEL|You're banned from sending messages in supergroups/channels|
|USER_IS_BLOCKED|User is blocked|
|USER_IS_BOT|Bots can't send messages to other bots|
|YOU_BLOCKED_USER|You blocked this user|
|RANDOM_ID_DUPLICATE|You provided a random ID that was already used|
|CHAT_WRITE_FORBIDDEN|You can't write in this chat|
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* Implement automatic object conversion for media, and more awesome stuff
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* Implement event update handler and file upload/download callback
* Auto-detect mime type, duration, width and height of media
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* Document new file functions
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* Implement webhook update handler and forking in main loop
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|Timeout|A timeout occurred while fetching data from the bot|
### Example:
```
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if (!file_exists('madeline.php')) {
copy('https://phar.madelineproto.xyz/madeline.php', 'madeline.php');
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}
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* Document MTProto methods
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* Implement event update handler and file upload/download callback
* Auto-detect mime type, duration, width and height of media
* Update docs
* Document new file functions
* Fix links
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* Implement webhook update handler and forking in main loop
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include 'madeline.php';
// !!! This API id/API hash combination will not work !!!
// !!! You must get your own @ my.telegram.org !!!
$api_id = 0;
$api_hash = '';
$MadelineProto = new \danog\MadelineProto\API('session.madeline', ['app_info' => ['api_id' => $api_id, 'api_hash' => $api_hash]]);
$MadelineProto->start();
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* Documentation rework
* Apply fixes from StyleCI
* Documentation fixes
* Login as bot through web/cli API, allow using invite links in joinChannel, full invite links in importChatInvite and checkChatInvite, non-invite links in importChatInvite
* Apply fixes from StyleCI
* Logging fixes
* Build docs
* Add methods to modify start template, bugfix to logging and keyboard conversion
* Add TL documentator
* Document MTProto methods
* Documenting methods...
* 7% documented
* Bugfixes
* Update docs
* Update docs
* Simplify file management
* Implement automatic object conversion for media, and more awesome stuff
* Implement automatic object conversion for media, and more awesome stuff
* Implement event update handler and file upload/download callback
* Auto-detect mime type, duration, width and height of media
* Update docs
* Document new file functions
* Fix links
* Fix links
* Update bot.php to use event loop
* Implement webhook update handler and forking in main loop
* Build docs
* Better docs
* Fixes to secret chats
* Almost finished updating docs
* Bugfixes, implemented infinite loop for loop() method, almost finished docs
* Finish writing docs
* Add automatic documentation builder script
* Finished writing docs
2018-03-20 12:48:05 +01:00
$Updates = $MadelineProto->messages->sendMessage(['no_webpage' => Bool, 'silent' => Bool, 'background' => Bool, 'clear_draft' => Bool, 'peer' => InputPeer, 'reply_to_msg_id' => int, 'message' => 'string', 'reply_markup' => ReplyMarkup, 'entities' => [MessageEntity, MessageEntity], 'parse_mode' => 'string', ]);
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```
Or, if you're using the [PWRTelegram HTTP API ](https://pwrtelegram.xyz ):
### As a bot:
POST/GET to `https://api.pwrtelegram.xyz/botTOKEN/madeline`
Parameters:
* method - messages.sendMessage
* params - `{"no_webpage": Bool, "silent": Bool, "background": Bool, "clear_draft": Bool, "peer": InputPeer, "reply_to_msg_id": int, "message": "string", "reply_markup": ReplyMarkup, "entities": [MessageEntity], "parse_mode": "string"}`
### As a user:
POST/GET to `https://api.pwrtelegram.xyz/userTOKEN/messages.sendMessage`
Parameters:
parse_mode - string
Or, if you're into Lua:
```
Updates = messages.sendMessage({no_webpage=Bool, silent=Bool, background=Bool, clear_draft=Bool, peer=InputPeer, reply_to_msg_id=int, message='string', reply_markup=ReplyMarkup, entities={MessageEntity}, parse_mode='string', })
```
## Usage of reply_markup
You can provide bot API reply_markup objects here.
## Return value
If the length of the provided message is bigger than 4096, the message will be split in chunks and the method will be called multiple times, with the same parameters (except for the message), and an array of [Updates ](../types/Updates.md ) will be returned instead.
## Usage of parse_mode:
Set parse_mode to html to enable HTML parsing of the message.
Set parse_mode to Markdown to enable markown AND html parsing of the message.
The following tags are currently supported:
```
< br > a newline
< b > < i > bold works ok, internal tags are stripped< / i > < / b >
< strong > bold< / strong >
< em > italic< / em >
< i > italic< / i >
< code > inline fixed-width code< / code >
< pre > pre-formatted fixed-width code block< / pre >
< a href = "https://github.com" > URL< / a >
< a href = "mention:@danogentili" > Mention by username< / a >
< a href = "mention:186785362" > Mention by user id< / a >
< pre language = "json" > Pre tags can have a language attribute< / pre >
```
You can also use normal markdown, note that to create mentions you must use the `mention:` syntax like in html:
```
[Mention by username ](mention:@danogentili )
[Mention by user id ](mention:186785362 )
```
MadelineProto supports all html entities supported by [html_entity_decode ](http://php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php ).