This makes it very easy to post messages to your team in slack.Module Contents ¶ class _webhook_operator. When ran the result is returned for success will contain ‘OK’ for failure an error message is returned. To post to a user with a username of abc123 then remove the # and use a post('Sample text to send to Slack!', same goes for setting the icon and username: post('Sample text to send to Slack!', ':superbot', 'AceBot')

Usage is very simple to post and use the defaults set in the function: post('Sample text to send to Slack!') $ch = curl_init('Your-Slack-webhook-url') Ĭurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST') Ĭurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('payload' => $data)) Ĭurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true) function post($message, $room = '#general', $icon = ':ghost', $username = 'BOT')

Import the webhook url must be set in curl_init(). When ran the params are added to json_encode to create a json object and then posts to your webhook url using curl. The room, icon and username cna have default values meaning the only parameter you need is the message. The function below sets the text to send, the roo and icon and username. To make things easier a function can be used. To change the default display name: 'username': 'new-bot-name'Īlso the icon can be changed by either: 'icon_url': ''Īll of this should be added to Json and posted to the webhook url. Line breaks can be added by placing where you want a line break. Messages are in json format to send a plain text message the format is: payload= Take not of the provided Webhook URL you will need that to post updated to. To get started head over to to create a new integration, select the channel to be used. Message Attachments can also be used in Incoming Webhooks to display richly-formatted messages that stand out from regular chat messages. They make use of normal HTTP requests with a JSON payload that includes the message text and some options. Incoming Webhooks are a simple way to post messages from external sources into Slack. The Slack incoming webhook API is perfect for this task. Slack is a great tool for teams I use it to communicate with the rest of my team, recently I’ve been wanting my web applications to send notifications to certain Slack channels.

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