如何在Laravel 4中获得“cron”支持？

Question

Does self-hosted (non-Forge) Laravel have a cron system? Or has this been supplanted by worker queues?

That is, in many PHP frameworks, there's a single cron file to run -- often named cron.php. You're usually instructed to configure this script to run every 15 minutes (or some similar time) via a unix cron job.

1,15,30,45 * * * * /path/to/php /path/to/cron.php

Does Laravel have a similar system? Googling about I've seen some mentions that Forge has a solution for this, and that older version of Laravel might have had a system, but I haven't been able to find a clear answer W/R/T Laravel 4.

Answer 1

You can schedule artisan commands and make your own commands like so:

php artisan command:make cronCommand

Which will result in a cronCommand.php file in your app/commands directory

Then you make artisan aware of the command

Add Artisan::add(new cronCommand); to app/start/artisan.php

composer dump-autoload

Now you can see your new command via php artisan list

and schedule it via 1,15,30,45 * * * * artisan cronCommand

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Reference

• Laravel Commands - Documentation
• Taylor Otwell - Building Artisan Commands
• Dispatcher - Artisan Command Scheduler