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title: InputChannel
description: constructors and methods of type InputChannel
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image: https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/favicons/android-chrome-256x256.png
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# Type: InputChannel
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[Back to types index ](index.md )
You can directly provide the [Update ](Update.md ) or [Message ](Message.md ) object here, MadelineProto will automatically extract the destination chat id.
The following syntaxes can also be used:
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```php
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$InputChannel = '@username'; // Username
$InputChannel = 'me'; // The currently logged-in user
$InputChannel = 44700; // bot API id (users)
$InputChannel = -492772765; // bot API id (chats)
$InputChannel = -10038575794; // bot API id (channels)
$InputChannel = 'https://t.me/danogentili'; // t.me URLs
$InputChannel = 'https://t.me/joinchat/asfln1-21fa_'; // t.me invite links
$InputChannel = 'user#44700'; // tg-cli style id (users)
$InputChannel = 'chat#492772765'; // tg-cli style id (chats)
$InputChannel = 'channel#38575794'; // tg-cli style id (channels)
```
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A [Chat ](Chat.md ), a [User ](User.md ), an [InputPeer ](InputPeer.md ), an [InputDialogPeer ](InputDialogPeer.md ), an [InputNotifyPeer ](InputNotifyPeer.md ), an [InputUser ](InputUser.md ), an [InputChannel ](InputChannel.md ), a [Peer ](Peer.md ), an [DialogPeer ](DialogPeer.md ), [NotifyPeer ](NotifyPeer.md ), or a [Chat ](Chat.md ) object can also be used.
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### Possible values (constructors):
[inputChannelEmpty ](../constructors/inputChannelEmpty.md )
[inputChannel ](../constructors/inputChannel.md )
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[inputChannelFromMessage ](../constructors/inputChannelFromMessage.md )
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### Methods that return an object of this type (methods):
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[inputChannelEmpty ](../constructors/inputChannelEmpty.md )
[inputChannel ](../constructors/inputChannel.md )
[inputChannelFromMessage ](../constructors/inputChannelFromMessage.md )