Change the presence

A help page for changing the bot's presence

Presence

A bot presence is basically the status of a bot (idle, dnd, online, offline, invisible)

Changing status + activity might doesn't work sometimes!

Directly after startup, the presence is not changeable, it's recommended to put that into a delayed task

How to update the Presence for the Bot

$activity = new Activity();

How to change the action

Set the bot playing

The Gamename can be a various value

$activity->setPlaying("Gamename");

Set the bot listening

The Songname can be a various value

$activity->setListening("Songname");

Set the bot streaming

The streamed game can be a various value

$activity->setStreaming("Gamename");

Set the bot competing

The competing game can a various value

$activity->setCompeting("Gamename");

How to change the Create - Timestamp

This is not recommended since not every timestamp is going to work, only change the value if you know exactly what you're doing!

$activity->setCreateTimestamp($timestamp);

$timestamp has to be an Integer

How to change the status

The status can either be online, dnd, idle, invisible or offline

You can change it by using

$activity->setStatus("status");

for this you can also use the constants listed here.

Now, how to actually update the presence?

This is quite simple too, just perform this action:

$client->setStatus($activity);

If you don't know how to get the Client instance visit This page.

Examples:

$activity = new Activity();
$activity->setPlaying("I'm a new bot!");
$activity->setStatus(Activity::STATUS_DND);

$client->setActivity($activity);