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Tutorial: Build a Yii2 Console Controller to Manage Telegram Bot Webhooks

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A developer tutorial on DEV Community walks through building a dedicated Yii2 console controller to manage Telegram Bot API integrations via the command line. The guide covers four core administrative operations: verifying bot credentials, registering a webhook URL with secret token injection, removing webhooks, and pruning local update logs. Using a CLI approach avoids web server timeouts and keeps sensitive administrative tasks outside the public HTTP request lifecycle. API tokens are stored securely in environment variables rather than hardcoded in version-controlled files. The tutorial is scoped strictly to webhook lifecycle management and log retention, excluding conversational routing or long-polling setups.

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