MadelineProto/old_docs/API_docs_v38/constructors/channel.md

title	description
channel	channel attributes, type and example

Constructor: channel

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Attributes:

Name	Type	Required
id	int	Required
access_hash	long	Required
title	string	Required
username	string	Optional
photo	ChatPhoto	Required
date	int	Required
version	int	Required

Type: Chat

Example:

$channel = ['_' => 'channel', 'id' => int, 'access_hash' => long, 'title' => string, 'username' => string, 'photo' => ChatPhoto, 'date' => int, 'version' => int, ];

The following syntaxes can also be used:

$channel = '@username'; // Username

$channel = 44700; // bot API id (users)
$channel = -492772765; // bot API id (chats)
$channel = -10038575794; // bot API id (channels)

$channel = 'user#44700'; // tg-cli style id (users)
$channel = 'chat#492772765'; // tg-cli style id (chats)
$channel = 'channel#38575794'; // tg-cli style id (channels)