loc2mapbot

Telegram bot to collect and display Live Locations in Ingress Intel Total Conversion (IITC)

Requirements

• A Working web server with PHP and SSL support

• A MySQL or MariaDB Database

• PHP support in CLI

• PHP Curl (https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.curlfile.php)

• A valid certificate for your web server

**** VERY IMPORTANT ****

YOU MUST INITILIZE ALL CONFIGURATION BY FOLLOWING THESE STEPS

1. Configure your web server to serve PHP files in ./www/

2. PHP version must have CURLFile support

3. Make sure the convert command is installed from ImageMagick

4. Create a MariaDb/Mysql database and a valid database user

5. Create a Telegram Bot in Telegram with help of the bot @BotFather

6. Run the ./init.sh script to install all required components and setup the configuration

7. Start the bot ./loc2mapbot.php

OPTIONAL:

In order to specify valid admin chats, you will need a file called .data.json including the following

{
"last_update_id": 0,
    "admin_chats": [
        -11675,
        12717
    ]
}