Basic curl bot post command in PHP

[Michael Wigle]

I'm not very familiar with curl but am able to manually type the curl command for posting as my bot (curl -d '{"text" : "Your message here", "bot_id" : "BOT_ID"}' https://api.groupme.com/v3/bots/post). However, I don't know how to launch that command in PHP. I know I need to use curl_exec() but don't know exactly how that translates. Can anyone give me a quick PHP example that would run the above command using curl_exec()?

[Michael Wigle]

Looks like I found my answer. However, I'm using PHP5 instead of any curl code. It seems a little cleaner to me... Here's the PHP code that appears to do the job (BOT_ID is obviously your bot's ID):

<?php

$url = 'https://api.groupme.com/v3/bots/post';

$data = array('text' => Your message here', 'bot_id' => 'BOT_ID');

// use key 'http' even if you send the request to https://...

$options = array(

    'http' => array(

        'header'  => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",

        'method'  => 'POST',

        'content' => http_build_query($data)

    )

);

$context  = stream_context_create($options);

$result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);

if ($result === FALSE) { /* Handle error */ }

var_dump($result);

?>

On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 11:08:38 AM UTC-4, Michael Wigle wrote:

I'm not very familiar with curl but am able to manually type the curl command for posting as my bot (curl -d '{"text" : "Your message here", "bot_id" : "BOT_ID"}' https://api.groupme.com/v3/bots/post). However, I don't know how to launch that command in PHP. I know I need to use curl_exec() but don't know exactly how that translates. Can anyone give me a quick PHP example that would run the above command using curl_exec()?

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