Laravel 8 Call a route via cron

Question

I am attempting to invoke a route as a cron job. Have attempted several guides such as this:

Call laravel controller via command line and https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/croning-a-route

Which leads to this addition in Kernel:

protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule) {
    $schedule->call(function () {
        (new Cron_c)->start();
    })->everyMinute();
}

Which does nothing but output 'Callback' when testing using

php /var/www/html/mySite/artisan schedule:run

outputs

[2022-07-11T15:27:50+00:00] Running scheduled command: Callback

The cron job code runs fine when entering the route into the browser and it outputs log info and on screen.

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 20 '22 at 20:16

What you are looking for is Laravel Commands: https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/artisan

With php artisan make:command <your Command Name> you can create Commands. Those will be created in the App/Console/Commands directory.

You will there find in the newly created class a function called handle() where you would put your code.

The CLI command to call your function will be set in the property protected $signature = "datadimensionsCommand";, which is prepared for you as well.

So your cronjob would call:


$> php /path/to/your/app/artisan datadimensionsCommand

Checkout the docs for a deeper dive!

Laravel 8 Call a route via cron

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