Slack is a team collaboration chat application designed for businesses. Due to its attention to detail and extensibility, many commentators are saying that the tool will dramatically change how we work in the future.

This tutorial will get you started with integrating your PHP application to Slack by making it post messages to a Slack channel and respond to slash commands, opening up many possibilities for office application development.

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