Hello artisans,

How are you doing? In this tutorial, I will discuss with you Laravel Artisan Console Task Scheduling and Cron Job. If you don’t know about Cron job in laravel, don’t worry you are in the right place. In this Cron Job tutorial, I will try to explain Artisan Console Task Scheduling with an example. So here we go.

Laravel Artisan Console Task Scheduling and Cron Job

What is Artisan Console ?

Artisan Console is the name of the command-line interface included with Laravel. It provides a number of helpful commands for your use while developing your application/software. It is driven by the powerful Symfony Console component.

To see the list of all available Artisan commands, you can use the list command in your terminal:

php artisan list

Laravel Artisan Console Task Scheduling and Cron Job

Here you can see a list of available artisan commands. You may think, How can I make my own custom artisan command?

Creating a custom artisan command you have to run this command.

php artisan make:command DeleteProduct

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After then,Run this command, a new Command file has created in App\Console\Commands directory.

App\Console\Commands\DeleteProduct.php

Now, in this class file you may see two protected variable “signature“, “description” where you have to set up your command name and describe about your command .

 protected $signature = 'delete:product';
 protected $description = 'Delete Low Price Products';

Now you have to define in your logic in handle() method like this .

Laravel Artisan Console Task Scheduling and Cron Job

public function handle()
    {
        $products = Product::where('price','<', 300)->delete();
        $products ? $this->info('Delete') : $this->info('Not Delete');
        return 0;
    }

in this handle I set up and logic which is delete products which price under 300.(You can define your own logic)

Next, Now you have to register this command App\Console\Kernel class. go there and register your command in $commands array.

App\Console\Kernel

 protected $commands = [
        DeleteProduct::class
    ];

then you have to set a schedule how many time you want to run your command.

 protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
    {
        // $schedule->command('inspire')->hourly();
        $schedule->command('delete:product')->everyMinute();
    }

You can add more time like everyTwoMinutes(), everyThreeMinutes(), everyFiveMinutes(), everyThirtyMinutes(), hourly(), hourlyAt(17), daily().

now run in this command in your terminal.

php artisan schedule:work

Every 1 minutes run your custom artisan command automatically . Hope It will help you.

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