MadelineProto started as a hobby project, back when I knew nothing about cryptography, telegram's APIs, async or programming standards:

before, MadelineProto was created piece by piece as a single monolothic class composed of multiple traits;
now, MadelineProto is composed of multiple modular APIs that are well-structured, heavily commented, wrappable, extendable in any possible and immaginable way.

I am really happy with how MadelineProto async turned out.
I had an absolute blast working on this update, and implementing async really opened a whole sea of possible innovations and features I can implement in MadelineProto now:

- Automatically asyncify your scripts (w/ php-parser).
- Async file upload by url (1.5gb)
- Get direct download url of any file (1.5gb)
- TON (this is actually going to be a lot of fun)
- group calls (the php-libtgvoip APIs are actually ready, I just need to wrap them in php-libtgvoip)
- video calls (~)
- native calls:
With MadelineProto async, I can finally properly implement native async phone calls in PHP:
this will allow handling phone calls on webhosts!
I already have some code I created a year ago for this backed up in a private gitlab repo :)
- async iterators:
I've been thinking of using AMPHP's async iterator API (after some modding obviously) to create async iterators for easily iterating over the messages of a group, and for doing other operations that would normally require using offsets:


foreach ($MadelineProto->getMessages('@group') as $message) {
// stuff
}


This shouldn't be too hard to implement, and with a proper (maybe separate OOP) API, it's going to be fun to make and use.

- snake_case => CamelCase conversion for all API methods:
Previously, MadelineProto's custom API methods (get_info, download_to_dir) used snake_case, which contrasted with the Telegram API methods (sendMessage), and is against PHP coding standards.
Soon, I plan to update MadelineProto's docs to only use CamelCase for method names.

The old method name will still be available after that; right now, you can already use both naming conventions for all MadelineProto methods:


$MadelineProto->get_pwr_chat('user'); // OK!
$MadelineProto->getPwrChat('user'); // OK!


However, I recommend you now use the CamelCase version of methods.

- ArrayAccess on promises (to be able to do yield $method()['result'] instead of (yield $method)['result'])
- An openChat method, inspired by tdlib, to enable fetching updates from groups you aren't a member of
- Add support for Telegram passport in 2FA and write some wrapper APIs
- Write some simplified APIs for takeout (can be implemented using async iterators)
- #MadelineProtoForNode async and lua async (the second can already be done now, the first is also pretty easy now that async is here :)))))
- DNS over HTTPS everywhere
- Parallelize some methods like the download method, or getPwrChat (upload is already fully parallelized)
- Get sponsor of MTProxies
- Optional max_id and min_id params in methods
- Update to layer 100 (for global group permissions & more)
- #phase1 🇮🇷🇷🇺

You can expect to see the following features in the next relases of MadelineProto.

Not related to MadelineProto: I'm also working on a new solution to permanently bypass ISP blocks and stop telegram censorship.

This will probably interest our Russian and Iranian users)

Stay tuned on this channel for updates.

#phase1🇮🇷🇷🇺