PHP Slack CURL Post Snippet

slack-curl-post.php

// post message

$message = "@$username is working on $text";

$data = "payload=" . json_encode(array(         
        'response_type' =>  $response_type,
        "text"          =>  $message,
        "icon_emoji"    =>  $icon
    ));

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, SLACK_WEBHOOK);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
// var_dump($result);
if($result === false) {
    echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch);
}

curl_close($ch);

// send ephemeral notification let user know that thier 
echo "@$username you've let everyone on #the-railroad know you are working on $text";