Laravel 9 Cron Job Scheduling Example Tutorial
In this tutorial, we will tell you how to create and schedule the cron job in the Laravel Framework (Laravel 9 cron job scheduling example tutorial).
Cron job means it will automatically execute as per you are defined time. here Laravel provides the Task Scheduling facility. so just we use this facility. if you schedule a task for the cron job that will execute as you defined time.
Overview
Step 1: Install Laravel
Step 2: Create a Command Class
Step 3: Implement Our Logic
Step 4: Register Command
Step 5: Run Scheduler Command
Step 1: Install Laravel
We are going to install laravel 9, so first open the command prompt or terminal and go to xampp htdocs folder directory using the command prompt. after then run the below command.
1 | composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel laravel9_cronjob |
Step 2: Create a Command Class
Here in this step, we will create the class using the below command.
1 | php artisan make:command DemoCron --command=demo:cron |
Step 3: Implement Our Logic
After run above command. now we will open the DemoCron.php in app/Console/Commands/ directory and Implement our logic.
DemoCron.php
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 | <?php namespace App\Console\Commands; use Illuminate\Console\Command; class DemoCron extends Command { /** * The name and signature of the console command. * * @var string */ protected $signature = 'demo:cron'; /** * The console command description. * * @var string */ protected $description = 'Command description'; /** * Create a new command instance. * * @return void */ public function __construct() { parent::__construct(); } /** * Execute the console command. * * @return mixed */ public function handle() { $count = \DB::table('users') ->whereDate('created_at', '=', date('Y-m-d')) ->count(); echo "Today $count users registered"; } } ?> |
Step 4: Register Command
here, we have to register the command class in the kernel.php and we will set the cron job schedule. so you can follow our below code.
kernel.php
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 | <?php namespace App\Console; use Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule; use Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel as ConsoleKernel; class Kernel extends ConsoleKernel { /** * The Artisan commands provided by your application. * * @var array */ protected $commands = [ Commands\DemoCron::class, ]; /** * Define the application's command schedule. * * @param \Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule $schedule * @return void */ protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule) { $schedule->command('demo:cron')->everyMinute(); } /** * Register the commands for the application. * * @return void */ protected function commands() { $this->load(__DIR__.'/Commands'); require base_path('routes/console.php'); } } ?> |
Here in this example, we are used everyMinute() cron schedule method but you can use it as per the requirement of cron schedule method. so you can see a list of cron schedule methods.
Method | Description |
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cron(‘* * * * * *’); | Run the task on a custom Cron schedule |
everyMinute(); | Run the task every minute |
everyFiveMinutes(); | Run the task every five minutes |
everyTenMinutes(); | Run the task every ten minutes |
everyFifteenMinutes(); | Run the task every fifteen minutes |
everyThirtyMinutes(); | Run the task every thirty minutes |
hourly(); | Run the task every hour |
hourlyAt(17); | Run the task every hour at 17 mins past the hour |
daily(); | Run the task every day at midnight |
dailyAt(’13:00′); | Run the task every day at 13:00 |
twiceDaily(1, 13); | Run the task daily at 1:00 & 13:00 |
weekly(); | Run the task every week |
weeklyOn(1, ‘8:00’); | Run the task every week on Tuesday at 8:00 |
monthly(); | Run the task every month |
monthlyOn(4, ’15:00′); | Run the task every month on the 4th at 15:00 |
quarterly(); | Run the task every quarter |
yearly(); | Run the task every year |
timezone(‘America/New_York’); | Set the timezone |
Step 5: Run Scheduler Command
Now we can run our cron job manually using the below command. when the user register After a minute we will found the new log. so you can check the storage/logs/laravel.php file for the log.
1 | php artisan schedule:run |