Small gist to work with chats based on MadelineProto

getchats.php

<?php


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

/**
 * This script does 3 things. Get the last `DIALOGS_LIMIT` dialogs of the current user,
 * gets information about a chat,
 * get the last `HISTORY_LIMIT` messages within a specific chat
 *
 * Copyright 2022 (C) Mehdi Haghgoo
 */


define ("DIALOGS_LIMIT", 20);
define ("HISTORY_LIMIT", 30);

$api = new \danog\MadelineProto\API('session/bot.madeline');

$api->start();



readline("Press a Enter to get list of chats: ");


$dialogs = $api->messages->getDialogs(
        offset_date: time() - 365 * 24 * 3600, //For the last year
        offset_id: 0,
        limit: DIALOGS_LIMIT  //Get the last 10 chat dialogs
);




echo "list of dialogs: \n";

foreach($dialogs['chats'] as $chat){
        echo @$chat['title'] . "\n";
}



promptContinue();


$input = readline("enter a username to get chat information for: ");



$messages = $api->messages->getHistory(
        peer : $username,
        offset_id : 0,
        offset_date : 0,
        add_offset : 0,
        limit : HISTORY_LIMIT,
        max_id : 0,
        min_id : 0,
);



echo "Here's the list of the last 30 messages with peer @$username \n";


foreach ($messages['messages'] as $message){
  echo $message['message'] . PHP_EOL;
}


function promptContinue(){
        $y = readline("Continue (y/N)? ");
        if ($y != "y"){
                exit(0);
        }
}


function getMessage($peer, $messageId){
        global $api;

        $message = $api->messages->getMessage($peer, $messageId);

        return $message['message'];
}