# Telegram Bot Message Processor

This repository provides a simple PHP + Makefile setup to **fetch Telegram updates** and **process incoming messages**.

## Overview
- `process_message.php` – defines the function `process_message()` where you can add your own logic for handling incoming messages (sending replies, saving data, etc.).  
- `Makefile` – automates fetching updates, processing them, and cleaning data files.  
- `lib/main.php` – expected to contain helper functions like `telegram_send_text()` and `telegram_send_file()`.

## How It Works
1. **Fetch updates** : calls the Telegram Bot API (getUpdates) and stores raw JSON messages in data/*.update_id.json.
```bash
make fetch_updates
```
2. **Process updates** : each update is passed to process_message.php, where you can customize your bot’s behavior.
```bash
make process_updates
````
3. **Clean data** : removes all program generated files
```bash
make clean
````


## Requirements:
-	PHP CLI
-	jq (for parsing JSON in make fetch_updates)
-	curl