Cron Job Execute Task Scheduling in Laravel Example

Doing manually same task everyday may boring and wasted time, in some case the policy required transfer data or generated report in every circle of month or days, so what if you were absent, the work will stuck or something like that. You may want your Laravel app generated report in middle night and transfer to somewhere automatically.

In this article, we will implement cron job task scheduling tutorial in Laravel 9 via the command scheduler we will create a cron job in laravel 9, and how to create custom commands in laravel 9.

Cron Job Task Scheduling

Following guideline will help you to implement cron job task

• Step 1 - Install Laravel Project
• Step 2 - Create Cron Job Command
• Step 3 - Register Cron Job Command
• Step 4 - Run Scheduler Command
• Step 5 - Laravel Set Cron Job on Live Server

Step 1 - Install Laravel Project

Not joking to implement Laravel you have to download Laravel Project and we are not required configure database connection in .env file. You might check how to install and configure database for Laravel 9.

Step 2 - Create Cron Job Command

Now we have to create custom command for cron job task. Run below command to generated cron job file

php artisan make:command TestCron --command=testing:cron

Open file app -> Console -> Commands -> TestCron.php

<?php

namespace App\Console\Commands;

use Illuminate\Console\Command;

class TestCron extends Command
{
    /**
     * The name and signature of the console command.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $signature = 'testing: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()
    {
        
        \Log::info("Testing Cron is Running ... !");
     
        /*
           Write your database logic we bellow:
           User::create(['email'=>'send mail']);
        */
      
        $this->info('testing:cron Command Run Successfully !');
    }
}

Step 3 - Register Cron Job Command

In this step we required to register cron job in kernel file and set a specific time interval to run the cron job. See below code

Open file app -> Console -> Kernel.php

<?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\TestCron::class,
    ];

    /**
     * Define the application's command schedule.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule  $schedule
     * @return void
     */
    protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
    {
        $schedule->command('testing:cron')->everyMinute();
    }

    /**
     * Register the commands for the application.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    protected function commands()
    {
        $this->load(__DIR__.'/Commands');

        require base_path('routes/console.php');
    }
}

In function schedule() will run every minute as we call function everyMinute() but there are many more task schedule frequencies that you can assign the task. Check below table for more detail

Step 4 - Run Scheduler Command

Now we will run the cron job with command below.

php artisan schedule:run

Step 5 - Laravel Set Cron Job on Live Server

If we want to run the task on live server please use the below command

* * * * * php /path/to/artisan schedule:run 1>> /dev/null 2>&1

OR

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

Hope this would help you learn how to implement cron job task scheduling and also how to run scheduler in Laravel 9 on live server. Thanks for reading!!

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