Yii2-scheduler

Cron task scheduler module for yii2. Features:

• Task management (creation, modification, deletion);
• Manually launch tasks or run tasks on a cron schedule;
• Tracking the results of tasks;
• Ajax user interface.

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer. Either run:

composer require egorspk/yii2-scheduler

or add

"egorspk/yii2-scheduler": "^1.0"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Subsequently, run

yii migrate/up --migrationPath=@vendor/egorspk/yii2-scheduler/migrations

in order to create the required tables in your database.

Usage

1. Add this to your web and console configuration modules array:

'modules' => [
  'scheduler' => [
      'class' => 'spk\scheduler\Module'
    ],
   ...
],

2. Next, add this line to your crontab file:

*/5 * * * * cd /project_path/; /php_path/php yii scheduler/run

Where:

• /project_path/ - path to your yii2 project (for example, /var/www/yii/);
• /php_path/ php - path to php (for example, /usr/bin/php).

Settings (web config)

• defaultFolder - path to the folder, where the methods of classes that can be used as a task (default value: @app/models);
• folderDepth - depth of class methods search by defaultFolder path (defaut value: 0).

Configuration example:

'modules' => [
  'scheduler' => [
      'class' => 'spk\scheduler\Module',
      'defaultFolder' => __DIR__ . '/../models/scheduler',
      'folderDepth' => 0
    ],  
   ...
],

Tasks (methods)

The method must return a value of type bool. True - the task succeeded.

All calls echo statement will be written in the log of the task.

User interface

The user interface is divided into 3 tabs:

• Task list;

• Add/Edit task;

• Task execution log.

Note

• img folder is needed only for README.md;

• file scheduler.mwb - database project for the MySQL Workbench program.

License

MIT