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  1. 8 cron_example/cron_example.module

Demonstrates use of the Cron API in Drupal - hook_cron()

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<?php

/**
 * @file
 * Demonstrates use of the Cron API in Drupal - hook_cron()
 */

/**
 * @defgroup cron_example Example: Cron
 * @ingroup examples
 * @{
 * Example using Cron API, including hook_cron() and hook_cron_queue_info().
 *
 * This example is part of the Examples for Developers Project
 * which you can download and experiment with at
 * http://drupal.org/project/examples
 */

/**
 * Implements hook_menu().
 */
function cron_example_menu() {
  $items['examples/cron_example'] = array(
    'title' => 'Cron Example',
    'page callback' => 'drupal_get_form',
    'page arguments' => array(
      'cron_example_form',
    ),
    'access callback' => TRUE,
  );
  return $items;
}

/**
 * The form to provide a link to cron.php.
 */
function cron_example_form($form, &$form_state) {
  $form['status'] = array(
    '#type' => 'fieldset',
    '#title' => t('Cron status information'),
  );
  $form['status']['intro'] = array(
    '#markup' => '<div>' . t('The cron example demonstrates hook_cron() and hook_cron_queue_info() processing. If you have administrative privileges you can run cron from this page and see the results.') . '</div>',
  );
  $form['status']['last'] = array(
    '#markup' => '<div>' . t('cron_example_cron() will next execute the first time cron runs after %time (%seconds seconds from now)', array(
      '%time' => date_iso8601(variable_get('cron_example_next_execution', time())),
      '%seconds' => variable_get('cron_example_next_execution', time()) - time(),
    )) . '</div>',
  );
  if (user_access('administer site configuration')) {
    $form['cron_run'] = array(
      '#type' => 'fieldset',
      '#title' => t('Run cron manually'),
    );
    $form['cron_run']['cron_reset'] = array(
      '#type' => 'checkbox',
      '#title' => t("Run cron_example's cron regardless of whether interval has expired."),
      '#default_value' => FALSE,
    );
    $form['cron_run']['cron_trigger'] = array(
      '#type' => 'submit',
      '#value' => t('Run cron now'),
      '#submit' => array(
        'cron_example_form_cron_run_submit',
      ),
    );
  }
  $form['cron_queue_setup'] = array(
    '#type' => 'fieldset',
    '#title' => t('Cron queue setup (for hook_cron_queue_info(), etc.)'),
  );
  $queue_1 = DrupalQueue::get('cron_example_queue_1');
  $queue_2 = DrupalQueue::get('cron_example_queue_2');
  $form['cron_queue_setup']['current_cron_queue_status'] = array(
    '#markup' => '<div>' . t('There are currently %queue_1 items in queue 1 and %queue_2 items in queue 2', array(
      '%queue_1' => $queue_1
        ->numberOfItems(),
      '%queue_2' => $queue_2
        ->numberOfItems(),
    )) . '</div>',
  );
  $form['cron_queue_setup']['num_items'] = array(
    '#type' => 'select',
    '#title' => t('Number of items to add to queue'),
    '#options' => drupal_map_assoc(array(
      1,
      5,
      10,
      100,
      1000,
    )),
    '#default_value' => 5,
  );
  $form['cron_queue_setup']['queue'] = array(
    '#type' => 'radios',
    '#title' => t('Queue to add items to'),
    '#options' => array(
      'cron_example_queue_1' => t('Queue 1'),
      'cron_example_queue_2' => t('Queue 2'),
    ),
    '#default_value' => 'cron_example_queue_1',
  );
  $form['cron_queue_setup']['submit'] = array(
    '#type' => 'submit',
    '#value' => t('Add jobs to queue'),
    '#submit' => array(
      'cron_example_add_jobs_to_queue',
    ),
  );
  $form['configuration'] = array(
    '#type' => 'fieldset',
    '#title' => t('Configuration of cron_example_cron()'),
  );
  $form['configuration']['cron_example_interval'] = array(
    '#type' => 'select',
    '#title' => t('Cron interval'),
    '#description' => t('Time after which cron_example_cron will respond to a processing request.'),
    '#default_value' => variable_get('cron_example_interval', 60 * 60),
    '#options' => array(
      60 => t('1 minute'),
      300 => t('5 minutes'),
      3600 => t('1 hour'),
      60 * 60 * 24 => t('1 day'),
    ),
  );
  return system_settings_form($form);
}

/**
 * Allow user to directly execute cron, optionally forcing it.
 */
function cron_example_form_cron_run_submit($form, &$form_state) {
  if (!empty($form_state['values']['cron_reset'])) {
    variable_set('cron_example_next_execution', 0);
  }

  // We don't usually use globals in this way. This is used here only to
  // make it easy to tell if cron was run by this form.
  $GLOBALS['cron_example_show_status_message'] = TRUE;
  if (drupal_cron_run()) {
    drupal_set_message(t('Cron ran successfully.'));
  }
  else {
    drupal_set_message(t('Cron run failed.'), 'error');
  }
}

/**
 * Submit function used to add the items to the queue.
 */
function cron_example_add_jobs_to_queue($form, &$form_state) {
  $queue = $form_state['values']['queue'];
  $num_items = $form_state['values']['num_items'];
  $queue = DrupalQueue::get($queue);
  for ($i = 1; $i <= $num_items; $i++) {
    $item = new stdClass();
    $item->created = time();
    $item->sequence = $i;
    $queue
      ->createItem($item);
  }
}

/**
 * Implements hook_cron().
 *
 * hook_cron() is the traditional (pre-Drupal 7) hook for doing "background"
 * processing. It gets called every time the Drupal cron runs and must decide
 * what it will do.
 *
 * In this example, it does a watchdog() call after the time named in
 * the variable 'cron_example_next_execution' has arrived, and then it
 * resets that variable to a time in the future.
 */
function cron_example_cron() {

  // Default to an hourly interval. Of course, cron has to be running at least
  // hourly for this to work.
  $interval = variable_get('cron_example_interval', 60 * 60);

  // We usually don't want to act every time cron runs (which could be every
  // minute) so keep a time for the next run in a variable.
  if (time() >= variable_get('cron_example_next_execution', 0)) {

    // This is a silly example of a cron job.
    // It just makes it obvious that the job has run without
    // making any changes to your database.
    watchdog('cron_example', 'cron_example ran');
    if (!empty($GLOBALS['cron_example_show_status_message'])) {
      drupal_set_message(t('cron_example executed at %time', array(
        '%time' => date_iso8601(time(0)),
      )));
    }
    variable_set('cron_example_next_execution', time() + $interval);
  }
}

/**
 * Implements hook_cron_queue_info().
 *
 * hook_cron_queue_info() and family are new since Drupal 7, and allow any
 * process to add work to the queue to be acted on when cron runs. Queues are
 * described and worker callbacks are provided, and then only the worker
 * callback needs to be implemented.
 *
 * All the details of queue use are done by the cron_queue implementation, so
 * one doesn't need to know much about DrupalQueue().
 *
 * @see queue_example.module
 */
function cron_example_cron_queue_info() {
  $queues['cron_example_queue_1'] = array(
    'worker callback' => 'cron_example_queue_1_worker',
    // One second max runtime per cron run.
    'time' => 1,
  );
  $queues['cron_example_queue_2'] = array(
    'worker callback' => 'cron_example_queue_2_worker',
    'time' => 10,
  );
  return $queues;
}

/**
 * Simple worker for our queues.
 *
 * @param object $item
 *   Any object to be worked on.
 */
function cron_example_queue_1_worker($item) {
  cron_example_queue_report_work(1, $item);
}

/**
 * Simple worker for our queues.
 *
 * @param object $item
 *   Any object to be worked on.
 */
function cron_example_queue_2_worker($item) {
  cron_example_queue_report_work(2, $item);
}

/**
 * Simple reporter for the workers.
 *
 * @param int $worker
 *   Worker number.
 * @param object $item
 *   The $item which was stored in the cron queue.
 */
function cron_example_queue_report_work($worker, $item) {
  if (!empty($GLOBALS['cron_example_show_status_message'])) {
    drupal_set_message(t('Queue @worker worker processed item with sequence @sequence created at @time', array(
      '@worker' => $worker,
      '@sequence' => $item->sequence,
      '@time' => date_iso8601($item->created),
    )));
  }
  watchdog('cron_example', 'Queue @worker worker processed item with sequence @sequence created at @time', array(
    '@worker' => $worker,
    '@sequence' => $item->sequence,
    '@time' => date_iso8601($item->created),
  ));
}

/**
 * @} End of "defgroup cron_example".
 */

Functions

Namesort descending Description
cron_example_add_jobs_to_queue Submit function used to add the items to the queue.
cron_example_cron Implements hook_cron().
cron_example_cron_queue_info Implements hook_cron_queue_info().
cron_example_form The form to provide a link to cron.php.
cron_example_form_cron_run_submit Allow user to directly execute cron, optionally forcing it.
cron_example_menu Implements hook_menu().
cron_example_queue_1_worker Simple worker for our queues.
cron_example_queue_2_worker Simple worker for our queues.
cron_example_queue_report_work Simple reporter for the workers.