PHP: Telegram Bot: Insert line break to text message

Question

"\n" and "\r\n", tested in text message sent by telegram bot, to create line break. Instead of showing line break, underline _ will appear after using them.

How I could printing line feed in telegram message sent by bot?

CODE

$txt = 'با تشکر از عضویت شما، هر روز حدود ساعت 10 شب یک ویدئوی جالب برای شما ارسال خواهد شد.';
$txt .= " \n ";
$txt .= 'Thanks for joining, Every day at almost 18:30 GMT an intersting video will be sent';

Message Demo

Any help will be appreciated.

@Dagon thanks a lot, first one just duplicate the message and print it twice, but second one do the job. Can I ask where is the source of these codes? — Hossein Shahsahebi, Aug 09 '15 at 20:56
first google hit for me was: https://www.twilio.com/help/faq/sms/how-do-i-add-a-line-break-in-my-sms-message — , Aug 09 '15 at 20:58
a simple `\n` should work, its possible that the bot manager that you are using is doing some kine of clean up before sending the message. I am using nodejs and `\n` works just fine. — Exlord, Dec 14 '16 at 11:04

score 96 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 02 '17 at 12:53

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There is a better way! The problem is because of URL encodings... You can use normal PHP text using \n but by passing it to urlencode method, as follows:

$txt = urlencode("here is my text.\n and this is a new line \n another new line");

It works for me!

edited Mar 02 '17 at 12:53

MahdiY

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answered Aug 12 '15 at 14:56

Majid

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Sorry Majid, Now I test another answer and all options failed, So I uncheck his answer and check yours – Hossein Shahsahebi Aug 16 '15 at 18:56
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urlencode does not work for me (it encodes everything, including spaces). If you in a habit like me to use single quotes, \n must be in double quotes: $text = ' my text' . "\n"; – Quentin Campbell Dec 05 '18 at 15:40

علیرضا · Answer 2 · 2018-04-26T09:35:22.987

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1) If you develop your code in Windows/Linux OS, you can simply use enter in text:

$text = 'test 123
         another text';

Thats all!

2) If your code run on Windows/Linux server, you can use PHP_EOL constant instead of \n:

$text = 'text 123 '.PHP_EOL.'yet another text';

3) And if you search for an OS independent soloution, you can use %0A or chr(10) for this purpose:

$text = 'text 123 '.chr(10).'yet another text';

edited Apr 26 '18 at 09:35

answered Aug 12 '15 at 04:10

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@Majid because you are on Mac! in iOS, the `PHP_EOL` and line break, is equal to `%0D` (or `\r`). but in linux and windows, the `PHP_EOL` and line break is equal to `%0A` (or `\n`) AND `%0D%0A` (or `\r\n`). – علیرضا Aug 14 '15 at 03:22
@Majid i add third way for you :) – علیرضا Aug 14 '15 at 03:33
Thank you for considering the issue. I'm on Mac, but the server that runs the PHP codes is a linux server on the Internet! Anyway thank you for adding the third way :-) – Majid Aug 15 '15 at 02:02

score 34 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 10 '15 at 17:28

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For future visitor just I quote @Dagon answer in comments:

Using %0A will make line feed in telegram messages

answered Aug 10 '15 at 17:28

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This should be the accepted answer. The `urlencode` function is not language agnostic. Your solution works when using the telegram API in any environment or language. – Dawson B Nov 03 '20 at 23:39

score 11 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 09 '20 at 14:23

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You can use %0A instead of \n.

answered Nov 09 '20 at 14:23

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score 6 · Answer 5 · answered May 14 '19 at 18:14

After reading and trying all of these answers, I just wanted to post my own solution. I have an application in Laravel 5.8 that sends the reservation both by e-mail and a Telegram message.

$telegramMessage = 
        "<strong>Reservation Request</strong>\n".
         '<strong>Name:</strong> ' . $reservation->reserv_name . "\n".
         '<strong>E-mail:</strong> <a href="mailto:' . $reservation->email . '"> ' . $reservation->email . "</a>\n".
         '<strong>Phone:</strong> ' . $reservation->phone . "\n".
         '<strong>Reservation Date/Time:</strong> ' . $reservation->reserv_date_time->format('d-m-Y H:i') . "\n".
         '<strong>Number of people:</strong> ' . $reservation->number_of_people . "\n".
         '<strong>Message:</strong> ' . $reservation->reserv_message . "\n";

Telegram::sendMessage([
            'chat_id' => env('TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID', ''),
            'parse_mode' => 'HTML',
            'text' => $telegramMessage,
        ]);

More or less I have used all the html tags that Telegram API allows. You should pay attention \n must be in double quotes.

Double quotes was the solution for me – Orbiting Eden Dec 10 '22 at 15:56 — Orbiting Eden, Dec 10 '22 at 15:56

score 4 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 11 '17 at 11:08

To avoid coding and encoding issues, I used this simple solution in my code:

First, I send my text message in HTML format by setting the parse_mode=HTML argument in the "sendMessage" URL.
Then, I insert the following code for each line break:

<pre>\n</pre>

ie.

... sendMessage?parse_mode=HTML&text="... paragraph1<pre>\n</pre>paragraph2 ..."

Of course the text variable was curl escaped before appended to the URL:

$text = curl_escape($handle, $text);

score 3 · Answer 7 · answered Sep 23 '17 at 03:51

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it may be not show result as you wants in Unicode languages like Persian! you can prepare your text and use this:

$txt = implode("\n", explode('\n', $txt));

answered Sep 23 '17 at 03:51

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score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Jul 18 '18 at 09:36

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for me this solution works: use double quotation mark

$message='Hi'
$message=$message."\n";
$message=$message.'Guys'

answered Jul 18 '18 at 09:36

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score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Dec 21 '18 at 20:20

All these answers are at the same time "right" and "wrong". In fact in depend a lot of the input you have. For example if you have a text area for input and then send the content to Telegram, if the user write in the text area and press return, the text in Telegram will be

       hello\neverybody

and not

       hello
       everybody

Performing URL encode will change nothing. After struggling a lot I discover a conflict with the fact sending the text area data from a page to another page escape some data.

The way I solve that is to remplace the escaped \n by a non-escaped one. So:

      $my_msg = str_replace("\\n","\n",$my_msg);

It works on Mac, PC and so on with text from text area.

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Nov 11 '16 at 13:46

I solved the problem in this way :

$txt = 'aaaaaaaaa\nnew line1 \nnewline2';
$parameters = array('chat_id' => $chatId, "text" => $txt);

$parameters["method"] = "sendMessage";
echo json_encode($parameters);

try here : https://telegram-bot-sdk.readme.io/docs/sendmessage

score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Mar 20 '17 at 19:40

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you should use urlencode to solve this problem:

$text ="sth sth
sth sth";
$text = urlencode($text);

answered Mar 20 '17 at 19:40

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Syaifudin Zuhri · Answer 12 · 2021-06-10T01:50:35.780

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try something like this, its work for me, and you need to add parameter parse_mode.

$text = "exampletest \n example"

or someting like this:

$text1 = 'example';
$text2 = 'next';
$data = $text1 . "\n" . $text2;

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#formatting-options

edited Jun 10 '21 at 01:50

answered Jun 10 '21 at 01:45

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score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Apr 21 '22 at 08:50

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ez way

$txt = "Thanks for joining, Every day at </br> almost 18:30 GMT an intersting video will be sent";

or

$txt = "Thanks for joining, Every day \r\n at almost 18:30 GMT an intersting video will be sent";

answered Apr 21 '22 at 08:50

Aref Solaimany

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score -1 · Answer 14 · answered Aug 23 '21 at 15:29

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It it easy just copy break line from anywhare to pass in code. enter image description here

answered Aug 23 '21 at 15:29

SUON RATANA

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Welcome to Stack Overflow! While this code may solve the question, [including an explanation](//meta.stackexchange.com/q/114762) of how and why this solves the problem would really help to improve the quality of your post, and probably result in more up-votes. Remember that you are answering the question for readers in the future, not just the person asking now. Please [edit] your answer to add explanations and give an indication of what limitations and assumptions apply. – Kevin M. Mansour Aug 24 '21 at 00:12

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