Slack app PHP script to create todo item in Things

SlackToThings.php

<?php

// Super quick-and-dirty php script to create a todo item in Things wheneven you save/star an item in Slack.
// Put this on webserver, and create a Slack app with a "star added" event subscription. See also
// https://nordicapis.com/a-beginners-guide-to-building-a-slack-bot-in-php/

// Stuff to fill in; get history key via:
// curl -H 'Authorization: Password YourPasswordHere' -v https://cloud.culturedcode.com/version/1/account/Your@Email.Here/own-history-key

$thingsHistoryKey = 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx'; // Required
$thingsLastEvent = '0'; // Optional



$event = file_get_contents("php://input");
$event = json_decode($event);

$itemUrl = $event->event->item->message->permalink . (isset($event->event->item->message->thread_ts) ? '?thread_ts=' . $event->event->item->message->thread_ts : '');
$title = htmlspecialchars_decode(trim($event->event->item->message->text));
$note = 'Link: '.$itemUrl;

$break = strpos($title, "\n");
if ( $break !== false ) {
	$note = trim(substr($title, $break)) . "\n\n" . $note;
	$title = substr($title, 0, $break);
}
if ( !$title ) {
        $title = $note;
	$note = null;
}

$ch=curl_init('https://cloud.culturedcode.com/version/1/history/'.$thingsHistoryKey.'/items?start-index='.$thingsLastEvent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'ThingsMac/20808500mas (x86_64; OS X 10.12.2; en_DK)');
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$result = json_decode($result, true);

$index = $result["current-item-index"];

$now = time();
$uid = md5($title.$note);
$item =  array(
    "t" => 0,
    "e" => "Task6",
    "p" => array(
      "acrd" => null,
      "agr" => [],
      "ar" => [],
      "ato" => null,
      "cd" => time(),
      "dd" => null,
      "dds" => null,
      "dl" => [],
      "do" => 0,
      "icc" => 0,
      "icp" => false,
      "icsd" => null,
      "ix" => 0,
      "lai" => null,
      "lt" => false,
      "md" => time(),
      "nt" => array(
          "_t" => "tx",
          "ch" => time(),
          "t" => 1,
          "v" => $note,
      ),
      "pr" => [],
      "rmd" => null,
      "rp" => null,
      "rr" => null,
      "rt" => [],
      "sb" => 0,
      "sp" => null,
      "sr" => null,
      "ss" => 0,
      "st" => 0,
      "tg" => [],
      "ti" => 0,
      "tir" => null,
      "tp" => 0,
      "tr" => false,
      "tt" => $title
  )
);

$data_string = json_encode(array($uid => $item));

$ch=curl_init('https://cloud.culturedcode.com/version/1/history/'.$thingsHistoryKey.'/commit?ancestor-index='.$index.'&_cnt=1');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,
    array(
		'content-type: application/json; charset=UTF-8',
		'accept: application/json',
		'app-id: com.culturedcode.ThingsMac',
		'content-encoding: UTF-8',
		'schema: 301',
		'accept-language: en-au',
		'accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, br',
		'app-instance-id: -com.culturedcode.ThingsMac',
		'content-length: '.strlen($data_string),
		'user-agent: ThingsMac/31501504 (MacBookPro15,2/x86_64; OS X 11.6.0; en_AU)',
		'push-priority: 5',
    )
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'ThingsMac/31501504 (MacBookPro15,2/x86_64; OS X 11.6.0; en_AU)');
$result = curl_exec($ch);
echo $result;
curl_close($ch);



?>