How can I ask user for an input (like email)?

[aghorbanmehr]

Hi, First of all thanks for this great telegram bot PHP. I have started to use it. but I have a question! How can I ask the user for input (like email) and wait until they answer? I need to do something like a survey! ask some questions and wait for a related answer and then ask another qustion!

Thanks.

[Mohsen322]

Hi there You should use database. Just save a keyword for every question. For example: user start bot. The bot say please enter your name. U can save user_id and next step keyword.

Next time first of all check keyword and store user entry related the saved keyword. Hope help you

[matinkg]

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Hi, First of all thanks for this great telegram bot PHP. I have started to use it. but I have a question! How can I ask the user for input (like email) and wait until they answer? I need to do something like a survey! ask some questions and wait for a related answer and then ask another qustion!

Thanks.

Hi, it's impossible with telegram bot API to store the user state. You should store users' states in a database. Suppose we want a robot that has a main menu. In the main menu, there are two buttons, "Email" and "Phone Number". If user clicked on each of them, we want to take a value from the user. The bot should work like this:

If (new user send a message to our bot) => we set their initial state which is main_menu

For current users:
    if (users state = main_menu):
        if (sent text = "email") => change user state to "enter_email"
        else if (sent text = "phone") => change user state to "enter_phone"
        else => users answer is incorrect

    else if (user state = enter_email):
        if (sent text was an email address) => store user's email address and change user state to "main_manu"
        else => users answer is incorrect

    else if (user state = enter_phone):
        if (sent text was an phone number) => store user's phone number and change user state to "main_manu"
        else => users answer is incorrect```

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