Fire a Slack Notification via CURL

slack_notification.php

<?php

// (string) $message - message to be passed to Slack
// (string) $room - room in which to write the message, too
// (string) $icon - You can set up custom emoji icons to use with each message
public function slack($message) {
        $data = "payload=" . json_encode(array(
	        "channel"       =>  "#webhooks",
	        "text"          =>  $message,
	        "icon_emoji"    =>  ":longbox:"
        ));
	
	// You can get your webhook endpoint from your Slack settings
        $ch = curl_init("https://hooks.slack.com/services/##TOKEN##");
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        $result = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);
	
        //$this->slack("Sent to Slack: " . $message);

        return $result;
    }