discord bot crashes completely after trying to send message to forum channels

[Jannik44]

Environment

• PHP Version:
  • 8.1.2
• DiscordPHP Version:
  • 7.3

Describe the bug I tried to send messages to normal channels, works as expected, when i send messages into a forum thread i get no message and the program crashes

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

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

use Discord\Discord;
use Discord\Parts\Channel\Message;
use Discord\WebSockets\Intents;
use Discord\WebSockets\Event;

$discord = new Discord([
    'token' => 'redacted',
    'intents' => Intents::getDefaultIntents()
    //      | Intents::MESSAGE_CONTENT, // Note: MESSAGE_CONTENT is privileged, see https://dis.gd/mcfaq
]);

$discord->on('ready', function (Discord $discord) {
    echo "Bot is ready!", PHP_EOL;

    // Listen for messages.
    $discord->on(Event::MESSAGE_CREATE, function (Message $message, Discord $discord) {
        if ($message->author != "<@1095101543872725092>") {
            echo "{$message->author->username}: {$message->content}", PHP_EOL;

            $channel = $discord->getChannel($message->channel_id);
            if ($message->content == "e" or $message->content == "E")
                $channel->sendMessage('E');
        }
    });
});
$discord->run();

Expected behavior it should send a message in the forum thread

Screenshots

[SQKo]

getChannel() can be only used to get Channel, not Threads. This is not a bug.

If you wish to get the thread or channel where the message was sent, just use $message->channel And you must always check if $channel is not null, because it might be not cached yet.

$message->author != "<@1095101543872725092>" even this line is wrong, to compare author id it must be: $message->author->id != 1095101543872725092