Telegram [parse_mode] and <a> tag question

[kirchevsky]

In the first case ($message variable), we get the message without a link, but in the second case (Google), we have the link. Why?
Maybe it is a stupid question but I broke my head trying to solve that.

$message = "<a href=\"".$url."\">" . $client->name . "</a>";
$message ="<a href=\"https://www.google.com\">Google link</a>";
$this->bot->reply($message, ['parse_mode' => 'HTML']);

[filippotoso]

Please try this:

$url = 'https://www.google.com';
$clientName = 'Google link';

$message = sprintf('<a href="%s">%s</a>', $url, $clientName);

$this->bot->reply($message, ['parse_mode' => 'HTML']);

[kirchevsky]

Unfortunately, this doesn't work this way. Have the same $clientName without a link.

[kirchevsky]

If we do something like this:
$this->bot->reply(htmlspecialchars($message), ['parse_mode' => 'HTML']);

We got the correct HTML syntax, so it is a problem with parse_mode, but I hope somebody has a working example of how to solve this problem. Maybe some other construction of the message. I already tried something like that:

$bot->reply(OutgoingMessage::create('Visit our <a href="https://www.example.com">Website</a>')
    ->withAttachment(\BotMan\Drivers\Telegram\Extensions\OutgoingMessage::create()->enableHtml(true));

But it doesn't work too.

[filippotoso]

Just tested and it works correctly:

class TelegramController extends Controller
{
    public function index(Request $request)
    {
        DriverManager::loadDriver(TelegramDriver::class);
        DriverManager::loadDriver(TelegramPhotoDriver::class);
        DriverManager::loadDriver(TelegramLocationDriver::class);
        DriverManager::loadDriver(TelegramContactDriver::class);

        $config = array_merge([
            'config' => config('botman.config')
        ], [
            'telegram' => config('botman.telegram', [])
        ]);

        $botman = BotManFactory::create($config, new LaravelCache);

        $botman->hears('Hi', function (BotMan $bot) {
            $url = 'https://www.google.com';
            $clientName = 'Google link';

            $message = sprintf('<a href="%s">%s</a>', $url, $clientName);

            $bot->reply($message, ['parse_mode' => 'HTML']);
        });

        $botman->listen();
    }
}