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title: messages.sendMessage
description: messages.sendMessage parameters, return type and example
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---
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## Method: messages.sendMessage
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### Parameters:
| Name | Type | Required |
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|----------|---------------|----------|
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|peer|[InputPeer](../types/InputPeer.md) | Yes|
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|reply\_to\_msg\_id|[int](../types/int.md) | Optional|
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|message|[string](../types/string.md) | Yes|
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|reply\_markup|[ReplyMarkup](../types/ReplyMarkup.md) | Optional|
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### Return type: [messages\_SentMessage](../types/messages_SentMessage.md)
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### Can bots use this method: **YES**
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### Example:
```
$MadelineProto = new \danog\MadelineProto\API();
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if (isset($token)) { // Login as a bot
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$MadelineProto->bot_login($token);
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}
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if (isset($number)) { // Login as a user
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$sentCode = $MadelineProto->phone_login($number);
echo 'Enter the code you received: ';
$code = '';
for ($x = 0; $x < $sentCode['type']['length']; $x++) {
$code .= fgetc(STDIN);
}
$MadelineProto->complete_phone_login($code);
}
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$messages_SentMessage = $MadelineProto->messages->sendMessage(['peer' => InputPeer, 'reply_to_msg_id' => int, 'message' => 'string', 'reply_markup' => ReplyMarkup, ]);
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```
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Or, if you're using the [PWRTelegram HTTP API ](https://pwrtelegram.xyz ):
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### As a bot:
POST/GET to `https://api.pwrtelegram.xyz/botTOKEN/madeline`
Parameters:
* method - messages.sendMessage
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* params - `{"peer": InputPeer, "reply_to_msg_id": int, "message": "string", "reply_markup": ReplyMarkup, }`
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### As a user:
POST/GET to `https://api.pwrtelegram.xyz/userTOKEN/messages.sendMessage`
Parameters:
peer - Json encoded InputPeer
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reply_to_msg_id - Json encoded int
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message - Json encoded string
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reply_markup - Json encoded ReplyMarkup
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Or, if you're into Lua:
```
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messages_SentMessage = messages.sendMessage({peer=InputPeer, reply_to_msg_id=int, message='string', reply_markup=ReplyMarkup, })
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```
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## Usage of reply_markup
You can provide bot API reply_markup objects here.
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## Return value
If the length of the provided message is bigger than 4096, the message will be split in chunks and the method will be called multiple times, with the same parameters (except for the message), and an array of [messages\_SentMessage ](../types/messages_SentMessage.md ) will be returned instead.