🎬 Initilize SDK

Before you can start building a Bale Bot, you need to configure Bale Bot SDK with your Bot Token that was provided by BotFather. Once you do that, you'll get access to all the available Bot API Methods to make requests to the Bale Bot API.

Standalone

Here is how you can quickly set up and initialize a single bot operation:

require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';

use EFive\Bale\Api;

$bale = new Api('YOUR BOT TOKEN');

// Example usage
$response = $bale->getMe();

🦾 Managing Multiple Bots

If you want to manage multiple bots, you can take advantage of the BotsManager like this:

use EFive\Bale\BotsManager;

$config = [
    'bots' => [
        'mybot' => [
            'token' => '123456:ABC-DEF1234ghIkl-zyx57W2v1u123ew11',
        ],
    ]
];

$bale = new BotsManager($config);

// Example usage
$response = $bale->bot('mybot')->getMe();

tip

FYI, $config can get large when handling multiple configurations. To avoid problems, create a dedicated file like config.php and require it in your code to return the array separately. You can use SDK's Laravel config file as a starting point.

info

The configuration guide provides further information on how to register multiple bots.

Laravel

Open the config/bale.php configuration file and set the token with your Bale Bot Token or you can also set an environment variable BALE_BOT_TOKEN with the appropriate value.

In Laravel, you don't have to initilize the SDK as its taken care for you in the service provider and ships with multibot support by default.

You can make use of the EFive\Bale\Laravel\Facades\Bale Facade to make API requests.

Example:

use EFive\Bale\Laravel\Facades\Bale;

$response = Bale::bot('mybot')->getMe();

info

The configuration guide provides further information on how to register multiple bots.

You can now get started to write your Bale Bot.

Refer the configuration guide to know more about the available options with detailed information.