This bundle provides cron management utilities for your Symfony Project

Add greg-doak/cron-bundle to your composer.json

$ composer require greg-doak/cron-bundle

Register the bundle in config/bundles.php

return [
    // ...
    GregDoak\CronBundle\GregDoakCronBundle::class => ['all' => true],
];

Create the database tables

$ php bin/console doctrine:migrations:diff
$ php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate

Or

$ php bin/console doctrine:schema:update --force

Create your first task

$ php bin/console cron:create

Add the scheduler to your cron

*/5 * * * * php /root/to/your/application/bin/console cron:run:scheduled

Or alternatively to run the scheduler on page request Configure services.yaml

parameters:
    // ...
    gregdoak.cron.run_on_request: true

This can have performance issues so is recommended to run on Development environments only

Run a single task, you will be prompted for which task to run

$ php bin/console cron:run:single

Kill a running task, you will be prompted for the running task

$ php bin/console cron:kill

Update a task

$ php bin/console cron:update

There are 3 database tables created:

cron_jobs - A record is created whenever the scheduler or single task is run and ensures tasks cannot be ran simultaneously. It also records a start and end time to measure performance of the entire job

cron_job_tasks - Each record consists of a single task, running tasks will be reserved by recording a cron_job_id

cron_job_logs - A log is created for each task to record the output, exit code, start and end times