---
title: Chat
description: constructors and methods of type Chat
---
## Type: Chat  
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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)
```

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.


### 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)