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<?php

/**
 * go to https://api.slack.com/web to create your access-token. The token will look somewhat like this:
 * xoxo-2100000415-0000000000-0000000000-ab1ab1
 */
public static function slack($message, $channel) {
{
    $ch = curl_init("https://slack.com/api/chat.postMessage");
    $data = http_build_query([
        "token" => "YOUR_API_TOKEN",
    	"channel" => $channel, //"#mychannel",
    	"text" => $message, //"Hello, Foo-Bar channel message.",
    	"username" => "MySlackBot",
    ]);
    curl_setopt($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);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $result;
}