---
title: messages.sendMessage
description: messages.sendMessage parameters, return type and example
---
## Method: messages.sendMessage
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### 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 blockURL 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).