PHP function to send a message to Slack

php to slack.php

function sendSlackMessage($text, $username = "PHP Error Bot", $channel = "#general")
{
  $url = "https://hooks.slack.com/services/your-token-here";
  $payload = array();
  $payload["username"] = $username; // you can customise this
  $payload["channel"] = $channel;
  $payload["text"] = $text;
  // set up & post curl
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'payload='.json_encode($payload));
  $result = curl_exec($ch);
  if($result === FALSE) {
    //send email or do something else here
        }
  curl_close($ch);

}

sendSlackMessage("Well thank you Brian", "Paypal Payment Accepted");