[FIXED] How to send empty message in telegram bot?

Issue

I have this keyboard in my telegram bot:

When i click the right arrow i get this new keyboard:

the code is this:

    $url = $GLOBALS["website"]."/sendMessage?chat_id=".$chatID."&text=''&parse_mode=html&reply_markup=".json_encode($keyboard3);
    file_get_contents($url);

I know that text is required in sendmessage method, but i'm searching a way or workaround to send an empty message.

I've tried with space or similar html entity, but i did not suceed.

There is a way to do this?

Thank you.

Solution

I don't think there is a way to do what you want.

Consider this:

https://api.telegram.org/botYOURTOKEN/sendMessage?chat_id=ID&text=

Since even space is not accepted, there are no other characters that can be encoded to represent "nothingness".

Answered By - andrea

Answer Checked By - Katrina (PHPFixing Volunteer)