upload photo and text from form input and sending to telegram bot with php

Question

html code:

<form action="process.php">
     <input type="text" name="name">
 <input type="file" name="photo">
 <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>  

process.php:

define ('url',"https://api.telegram.org/bot****/");

$name = $_GET['name'];
$img=$_FILES['photo']['name'];
$chat_id = '****';
$message = urlencode("Name:".$name);
file_get_contents(url."sendmessage?text=".$message."&chat_id=".$chat_id."&parse_mode=HTML");

I recieve text message but photo not. I don't know how to send photo with "sendPoto" method.

Answer 1

First of all you must store the file uploaded.

in your html code you have error. you must add enctype='multipart/form-data' to support file input.

So your html code must be like this:

<form action="process.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <input type="text" name="name">
    <input type="file" name="photo">
    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

In your php file you must first save file uploaded.

define ('url',"https://api.telegram.org/bot****/");

$info = pathinfo($_FILES['photo']['name']);
$ext = $info['extension']; // get the extension of the file
$newname = "newname.".$ext;

$target = 'images/'.$newname; // the path you want to upload your file
move_uploaded_file( $_FILES['photo']['tmp_name'], $target);

After that you can send this file to telegram api.

$chat_id = '123456'; // telegram user id
$url = url."sendPhoto?chat_id=$chat_id";

$params = [
    'chat_id'=>$chat_id,
    'photo'=>'Your site address/'.$target,
    'caption'=>$_POST['name'],
];

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($params));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$server_output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $server_output;