Laravel 10 Task Scheduling Corn Job

Understanding Laravel Task Scheduling

Laravel 10 Task Scheduling offer developers to automate the execution of various tasks within their application. This could include tasks like sending email reminders, clearing cache, sending notification, send billing information, reports, or any other routine job that needs to be performed at specific intervals. For example suppose you want to send your user email reminders everyday at 10pm, in that case you need laravel task scheduler.

Today we will learn how to setup laravel 10 task scheduling from scratch. Let's follow the bellow steps to complete this process.

Step-1: Install laravel 10

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel TestCorn

Step-2: Create custom command

We have to create a custom command. Run the bellow artisan command to create custom command. You can use any name for your command.

//php artisan make:command your-command-name

php artisan make:command TestCorn

You will find your custom command inside app\Console\Commands directory. Now update the TestCorn.php like bellow.

app\Console\Commands\TestCorn.php

<?php

namespace App\Console\Commands;

use Illuminate\Console\Command;

class TestCorn extends Command
{
    /**
     * The name and signature of the console command.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $signature = 'test:corn';

    /**
     * The console command description.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $description = 'Command description';

    /**
     * Execute the console command.
     *
     * @return int
     */
    public function handle()
    {
       $msg = 'Test msg using laravel task scheduling';
       \Log::info($msg);
       

        /*
           Write your database logic here:
        */
    }
}

Step-3: Register task scheduler

In this step you need to define your test:corn command inside schedule() method with time when you want to run your command like as bellow functions:

Method	Description
`->cron('* * * * *');`	Run the task on a custom cron schedule
`->everySecond();`	Run the task every second
`->everyTwoSeconds();`	Run the task every two seconds
`->everyFiveSeconds();`	Run the task every five seconds
`->everyTenSeconds();`	Run the task every ten seconds
`->everyFifteenSeconds();`	Run the task every fifteen seconds
`->everyTwentySeconds();`	Run the task every twenty seconds
`->everyThirtySeconds();`	Run the task every thirty seconds
`->everyMinute();`	Run the task every minute
`->everyTwoMinutes();`	Run the task every two minutes
`->everyThreeMinutes();`	Run the task every three minutes
`->everyFourMinutes();`	Run the task every four minutes
`->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 minutes past the hour
`->everyOddHour($minutes = 0);`	Run the task every odd hour
`->everyTwoHours($minutes = 0);`	Run the task every two hours
`->everyThreeHours($minutes = 0);`	Run the task every three hours
`->everyFourHours($minutes = 0);`	Run the task every four hours
`->everySixHours($minutes = 0);`	Run the task every six hours
`->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
`->twiceDailyAt(1, 13, 15);`	Run the task daily at 1:15 & 13:15
`->weekly();`	Run the task every Sunday at 00:00
`->weeklyOn(1, '8:00');`	Run the task every week on Monday at 8:00
`->monthly();`	Run the task on the first day of every month at 00:00
`->monthlyOn(4, '15:00');`	Run the task every month on the 4th at 15:00
`->twiceMonthly(1, 16, '13:00');`	Run the task monthly on the 1st and 16th at 13:00
`->lastDayOfMonth('15:00');`	Run the task on the last day of the month at 15:00
`->quarterly();`	Run the task on the first day of every quarter at 00:00
`->quarterlyOn(4, '14:00');`	Run the task every quarter on the 4th at 14:00
`->yearly();`	Run the task on the first day of every year at 00:00
`->yearlyOn(6, 1, '17:00');`	Run the task every year on June 1st at 17:00
`->timezone('America/New_York');`	Set the timezone for the task

app\Console\Kernel.php

<?php

namespace App\Console;

use Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel as ConsoleKernel;

class Kernel extends ConsoleKernel
{
    /**
     * Define the application's command schedule.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule  $schedule
     * @return void
     */
    protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
    {
         $schedule->command('test:corn')->everyMinute();
    }

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

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

Step-4: Test scheduling / corn job

Corn job / task scheduling setup is complete. Open your terminal run the bellow command to test your application.