Send proactive messages to MS Teams from PHP

Question

I have an PHP application that should send proactive messages to individual MS Teams users and send notifications to Teams channel as well. I spent a lot of time reading docs but totally got stack with one-way notification bot for MS Teams.

What done:
I created app with bot by App Studio and register it at botframework. So now I can install it to my Teams.

My questions:
Is is possible to send proactive messages with PHP (without SDK, Rest API) and how create that kind of bot? I can get an token from Rest API but how to identify team and start proactive conversation?

I am not fully into that topic, but you may create webhooks to do so. — Markus Zeller
It is not that I need. I need to send proactive messages to user from php. — Dmitry Semenov
But as far as I know you can setup a webhook/connector exactly doing that. — Markus Zeller

Hilton Giesenow Hilton Giesenow · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-24T15:24:42

This is a bit of a troublesome topic for exactly this reason - the docs explain how to Send the message, but not that there are critical variables you need, and that you need to have them already, for instance "ServiceUrl" and "ConversationId". They are unique to every user (for 1-1 chat) or for every conversation. You can get these any time the user calls your bot (they are on the "Activity" object), but also right as your app is installed by the user - there is a "ConversationUpdate" event call that is sent, that contains them too. You then need to store them your side (e.g. in a database), for later use in sending the actual 'proactive message'.

Hopefully that gives you what you need, but if anything is still unclear let me know in the "comments"

Send proactive messages to MS Teams from PHP

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