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---
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title: messages.sendMessage
description: messages.sendMessage parameters, return type and example
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---
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## Method: messages.sendMessage
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[Back to methods index ](index.md )
### Parameters:
| Name | Type | Required |
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|----------|---------------|----------|
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|peer|[InputPeer](../types/InputPeer.md) | Yes|
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|reply\_to\_msg\_id|[int](../types/int.md) | Optional|
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|message|[string](../types/string.md) | Yes|
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|reply\_markup|[ReplyMarkup](../types/ReplyMarkup.md) | Optional|
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### Return type: [messages\_SentMessage](../types/messages_SentMessage.md)
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### Can bots use this method: **YES**
### Errors this method can return:
| Error | Description |
|----------|---------------|
|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_WRITE_FORBIDDEN|You can't write in this chat||MESSAGE_EMPTY|The provided message is empty||PEER_ID_INVALID|The provided peer id 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|
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### Example:
```
$MadelineProto = new \danog\MadelineProto\API();
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if (isset($token)) { // Login as a bot
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$MadelineProto->bot_login($token);
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}
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if (isset($number)) { // Login as a user
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$sentCode = $MadelineProto->phone_login($number);
echo 'Enter the code you received: ';
$code = '';
for ($x = 0; $x < $sentCode['type']['length']; $x++) {
$code .= fgetc(STDIN);
}
$MadelineProto->complete_phone_login($code);
}
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$messages_SentMessage = $MadelineProto->messages->sendMessage(['peer' => InputPeer, 'reply_to_msg_id' => int, 'message' => 'string', 'reply_markup' => ReplyMarkup, ]);
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```
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Or, if you're using the [PWRTelegram HTTP API ](https://pwrtelegram.xyz ):
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### As a bot:
POST/GET to `https://api.pwrtelegram.xyz/botTOKEN/madeline`
Parameters:
* method - messages.sendMessage
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* params - `{"peer": InputPeer, "reply_to_msg_id": int, "message": "string", "reply_markup": ReplyMarkup, }`
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### As a user:
POST/GET to `https://api.pwrtelegram.xyz/userTOKEN/messages.sendMessage`
Parameters:
peer - Json encoded InputPeer
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reply_to_msg_id - Json encoded int
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message - Json encoded string
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reply_markup - Json encoded ReplyMarkup
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Or, if you're into Lua:
```
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messages_SentMessage = messages.sendMessage({peer=InputPeer, reply_to_msg_id=int, message='string', reply_markup=ReplyMarkup, })
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```
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## Usage of reply_markup
You can provide bot API reply_markup objects here.
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## 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 [messages\_SentMessage ](../types/messages_SentMessage.md ) will be returned instead.