How to send external link to the telegram group from my bot using php? what should be the value to reply_markup in the link?

Question

I am using the telegram bot to send some text with external link in it as a button. i have tried with following code bot i dont know the Json value to send. please, can anybody can help me?

$sendMsg = file_get_contents($boturl."/sendmessage?chat_id=".$chat_id."&text=".$c."&parse_mode=HTML&reply_markup=json_encode("?????")"); 

please help me

Answer 1

Try this

file_get_contents($boturl.'/sendmessage?chat_id='.$chat_id.'&text='.$c.'&reply_markup={"inline_keyboard":[[{"text":"Press here to open URL","url":"https://example.com"}]]}');