Webhook replies (quickAction)

What is quickAction?

If you are using webhooks (you should), Telegram makes a connection to your bot for each update. You can use the same connection to make a one-time request to Telegram.

For more info, read this

In summary:

Pros	Cons
Faster	One-time
Less requests	Less readable
	No result

Basically we can use this as a way to have one action done a bit faster than the others.

Usage

To use this, have your method as a string, and your arguments as an array like so:

$bot->quickAction('sendMessage', ['chat_id' => $chat_id, 'text' => $text]);

Note: trying to use this method twice in one instance of kyle2142\PHPBot will throw an Exception!

Example

I usually use this for a /ping command, as below:

switch($command){
  case 'ping': //simple check for bot responsiveness
    $bot->quickAction('sendMessage', ['chat_id' => $chat_id, 'text' => 'Pong!', 'reply_to_message_id' => $message['message_id']]);
    break;
  //others go here
}