So when a user sends a message to my bot, I send a message back asking for more information and set the reply_to_message field to the original message by the user (as described in the Telegram BOT API)
Once the user then replies back to my question, I try to check for the reply_to_messsage to extract the original message but it doesn’t exist.
Am I doing something wrong?
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What you’re looking for is the ForceReply.
If you use that, you can find your original message in the
reply_to_message
$message_reply=$update->message->reply_to_message; // if(message_reply) == true
$message_reply_message_text=$update->message->reply_to_message->text;
$message_reply_message_caption=$update->message->reply_to_message->caption; // text for picture