--- title: messages.sendMessage description: messages.sendMessage parameters, return type and example --- ## Method: messages.sendMessage [Back to methods index](index.md) ### Parameters: | Name | Type | Required | |----------|:-------------:|---------:| |no\_webpage|[Bool](../types/Bool.md) | Optional| |broadcast|[Bool](../types/Bool.md) | Optional| |silent|[Bool](../types/Bool.md) | Optional| |background|[Bool](../types/Bool.md) | Optional| |peer|[InputPeer](../types/InputPeer.md) | Required| |reply\_to\_msg\_id|[int](../types/int.md) | Optional| |message|[string](../types/string.md) | Required| |reply\_markup|[ReplyMarkup](../types/ReplyMarkup.md) | Optional| |entities|Array of [MessageEntity](../types/MessageEntity.md) | Optional| |parse\_mode| [string](../types/string.md) | Optional | ### Return type: [Updates](../types/Updates.md) ### Example: ``` $MadelineProto = new \danog\MadelineProto\API(); if (isset($token)) { $this->bot_login($token); } if (isset($number)) { $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); } $Updates = $MadelineProto->messages->sendMessage(['no_webpage' => Bool, 'broadcast' => Bool, 'silent' => Bool, 'background' => Bool, 'peer' => InputPeer, 'reply_to_msg_id' => int, 'message' => string, 'reply_markup' => ReplyMarkup, 'entities' => [MessageEntity], 'parse_mode' => 'string', ]); ``` ## Usage of parse_mode: Set parse_mode to html to enable HTML parsing of the message. Set parse_mode to Markdown to enable markown AND html parsing of the message. The following tags are currently supported: ```
a newline bold works ok, internal tags are stripped bold italic italic inline fixed-width code
pre-formatted fixed-width code block
URL Mention by username Mention by user id
Pre tags can have a language attribute
``` You can also use normal markdown, note that to create mentions you must use the `mention:` syntax like in html: ``` [Mention by username](mention:@danogentili) [Mention by user id](mention:186785362) ``` MadelineProto supports all html entities supported by [html_entity_decode](http://php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php).