{
  "id": 10011362,
  "title": "Sending Telegram Bot Messages with PHP cURL: Handling HTTP Status, JSON Errors, and Telegram's ok Field",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/sending-telegram-bot-messages-with-php-curl-handling-http-status-json",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-26T16:02:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/serhii_a9c08345ac360cf5c8/sending-telegram-bot-messages-with-php-curl-handling-http-status-json-errors-and-telegrams-ok-2j9f"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Introduction When you need to send a simple message from a Telegram bot, the most direct way is to call the sendMessage method over HTTPS. Using PHP’s cURL extension gives you full control over the request, allowing you to inspect the HTTP status code, handle JSON decoding errors, and react to Telegram’s ok field. This guide shows a minimal, production‑ready helper that focuses on those checks.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}