Mattermost PHP Post example

mattermost.post.php

// target webhook
$target = 'https://dev.bermos.tech/hooks/xxx'; // get your webhook at "Integrationen" at the settings

// message body
$body = "| Course | Time | Room | Video | Prof |\n";
$body .= "|:--|:--|:--|\n";
$body .= "| Test | XX:XX-YY:YY | HG E7 | :white_check_mark: HG E5 | FooBar |\n";
$body .= "| Test 2 | XX:XX-YY:YY | HG E7 | No | FooBar |\n";
$body .= "\n";
// this is an example for a course bot, using a table. Mattermost supports MD
// https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet

// payload construction
$payload = 'payload={"text": "';
$payload .= str_replace('"', '\"', $body);
$payload .= '"}';

// init cURL
$ch = curl_init();

// set cURL options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $target);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $payload);

// enable return and execute
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$server_output = curl_exec ($ch);

// close connection
curl_close($ch);

// check if the request was processed
if ($server_output == 'ok') {
    var_dump('yayy every thing works!');
} else {
    var_dump('shit! something is broken...');
}

// output return of the server
var_dump($server_output);
// output target url and sen't payload
var_dump($target, $payload);
die();