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) $icon - You can set up custom emoji icons to use with each message
public static function slack($message, $room = "engineering", $icon = ":longbox:") {
        $room = ($room) ? $room : "engineering";
        $data = "payload=" . json_encode(array(
                "channel"       =>  "#{$room}",
                "text"          =>  $message,
                "icon_emoji"    =>  $icon
            ));
	
	// You can get your webhook endpoint from your Slack settings
        $ch = curl_init("WEBHOOK ENDPOINT GOES HERE");
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        $result = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);
	
	// Laravel-specific log writing method
        // Log::info("Sent to Slack: " . $message, array('context' => 'Notifications'));

        return $result;
    }

How are you able to set the channel? When I'm giving permission for my app to use the Incoming Webhook, I get a unique URL for every single Channel. I can send the channel all day long, but it's the URL that defines which channel it goes to. Is there a generic URL that I can't find? Or is there a permission I need to create that I am overlooking?

hello
i want to use slack rest api in curl to create a channel not with webhook but that is not working plz help me

Those this still work i am getting an error missing_text_or_fallback_or_attachments

thanks, it's help me so mush :)

in symfony nexylan / slack-bundle, we use "withIcon" to change the icon but here how to do it ?

Brilliant, thanks. emoji icons aren't working for me but, besides that, it's a very useful function!