Telegram Bot Keyboard Button

Question

I got problem with Telegram Keyboard , I want to send a string in my array for markup that has a "#" but with "#" it dosent work and I visited a bot that same mine and that's works good and shows '#' in Keyboard Button

how can I fix this??

$string = "#number 1";//This # 

$markup[] = [
    ["text" =>  $string ]
];

$keyboard = [
    "keyboard" => $markup,
    "resize_keyboard" => true
];

return $r = file_get_contents("https://api.telegram.org/bot" . TOKEN . "/sendMessage?chat_id="
    . $chat_id . "&text=" . urlencode("MENU") . "&reply_markup=" . json_encode($keyboard));

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 26 '21 at 12:35

# will interfere with the request url.

You should escape it to prevent this.

Easiest solution is to use php's urlencode() function on the text thats containing any special chars:

<?php

    $chat_id = ;
    CONST TOKEN = '';

    $keyboard = [
        "keyboard" => [
            [
                ["text" =>  urlencode('Test -> #') ]
            ]
        ],
        "resize_keyboard" => true
    ];

    return file_get_contents("https://api.telegram.org/bot" . TOKEN . "/sendMessage?chat_id="
        . $chat_id . "&text=" . urlencode("MENU") . "&reply_markup=" . json_encode($keyboard));

Will produce:

Telegram Bot Keyboard Button

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