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CakePHP Scheduler Plugin

What can this plugin do?

This tool allows you to move all your cron jobs from being server configured via crontab to being app controlled in your CakePHP application (and plugins).

Requirements

PHP 7.4+ / PHP 8.0+
CakePHP 4.4+

Installation

composer require lordsimal/cakephp-scheduler

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In Application.php

public function bootstrap()
{
    parent::bootstrap();

    $this->addPlugin(\CakeScheduler\CakeSchedulerPlugin::class);
}

Or use the cake CLI.

bin/cake plugin load CakeScheduler

Usage

Defining a schedule

Either your app or your plugin need to implement the CakeSchedulerInterface which will add the schedule(Scheduler &$scheduler) method.

<?php
 
namespace App;

use App\Command\MyAppCommand;
use App\Command\OtherAppCommand;
use Cake\Http\BaseApplication;
use CakeScheduler\CakeSchedulerInterface;
use CakeScheduler\Scheduler\Scheduler;

class Application extends BaseApplication implements CakeSchedulerInterface
{
    public function schedule(Scheduler &$scheduler): void
    {
        $scheduler->execute(MyAppCommand::class)->daily();
        $scheduler->execute(OtherAppCommand::class, ['somearg', '--myoption=someoption'])->daily();
    }
}

with the ->execute() method you define which Command should be executed.

Each ->execute() method will return a \CakeScheduler\Scheduler\Event instance which is used to tell the scheduler when the command should be executed.

Available frequencies

Method	Run the command
`->cron('* * * * *');`	with the exact cron config
`->everyMinute();`	every minute
`->everyXMinutes(5);`	every 5 minutes
`->hourly();`	every hour
`->everyOddHour();`	every odd hour
`->everyXHours(4);`	every 4 hours
`->hourlyAt(37);`	every hour at 37 minutes
`->hourlyAt([15, 30, 45]);`	every hour at 15, 30 and 45 minutes
`->daily();`	every day at midnight
`->dailyAt('13:08');`	every day at 13:08
`->twiceDailyAt(3, 15, 5);`	every day at 03:05 and 15:05
`->weekly();`	every sunday at 00:00
`->weeklyOn(Event::MONDAY, '8:00');`	every week on monday at 08:00
`->monthly();`	on the first day of the month at midnight
`->monthlyOn(4, '15:00');`	on the 4th of the month at 15:00
`->twiceMonthly(1, 16, '13:00');`	on the 1st and 16th of the month at 13:00
`->lastDayOfMonth('12:00');`	on the last day of the month at 12:00
`->weekdays();`	from monday to friday
`->weekends();`	on saturday and sunday
`->mondays();`	on every monday
`->tuesdays();`	on every tuesday
`->wednesdays();`	on every wednesday
`->thursdays();`	on every thursday
`->fridays();`	on every friday
`->saturdays();`	on every saturday
`->sundays();`	on every sunday
`->days([Event::MONDAY, Event::THURSDAY]);`	on every monday and thursday
`->quarterly();`	on the first day of the quarter at midnight
`->quarterlyOn(5, '08:00');`	on the 5th day of the quarter at 08:00
`->yearly();`	on the first day of the year at midnight
`->yearlyOn(4, '5', '15:00');`	on the 5th of april at 15:00 every year

Also see the EventTest for all the available options

List all scheduled events

bin/cake schedule:view

Running the Scheduler

You still need the following entry in your crontab

* * * * * cd /path-to-your-project && bin/cake schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

Credit where credit is due

This plugin is heavily inspired by the Laravel Task Scheduling Feature

License

The plugin is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.