Botman: TELEGRAM newlines and other text formating options

[kenkit]

Whenever I try using \n or
they just get displayed int the chat.
Not event PHP_EOL.
Anyone succeeded in sending newlines or bold output ?

[mpociot]

You can use Markdown or HTML parse modes.

Just set this as additional Parameters to your reply method:

$bot->reply('Hello *you*', [
    'parse_mode' => 'Markdown'
]);

See: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#markdown-style

[kenkit]

It does not work, it endsup [blocking the bot] with alot of messages, the bot retries contacting(response) the telegram server with the [html] text whitch it can't send then it keeps seeing the new message which it cannot respond to, I had to disable the reply function after reseting the webhook to make sure there are no more messages pending some response.

[kenkit]

PHEW!
I've just cleared the 'pending_update_count'. I'll just have to wait for the official implementation.

[gczh]

I can affirm that this doesn't work.

[johnson-jnr]

Hi, make sure you test on the app itself, it doesn't work when testing locally but I can confirm that this works on the app
$bot->reply('Hello <b>you</b>', [ 'parse_mode' => 'HTML' ]);