mashtru will manage scheduled task on shared hosting (and everywhere else really)

Shared php web hosting, usually give you a limited number of scheduled task script (from 1 to 5), and if you need you app to perform some async cron jobs, and you dont want to forget about single responsibility principle, you will just need to mashtru.

Set the only scheduled task to be the hook.php script, which will be something like this

<?php
require '../vendor/autoload.php';

use Mashtru\JobManager;
use Mashtru\Libs\Helpers\DBConfig;
use Mashtru\Libs\Helpers\RunnerConfig;

$jobs = new JobManager(
    new DBConfig(
        'localhost',
        'mashtru',
        'root',
        'root'
    ),
    new RunnerConfig(
        [
            'App\Scripts\\'
        ]
    )
);

$jobs->fire();

and imagine to have a job si defined in the file DosomeStuff.php

<?php

namespace App\Scripts;

use Mashtru\Libs\Interfaces\Job;

class DoSomeStuff implements Job
{

    public function fire(array $parameters = [])
    {

        echo "I do some cron stuff!";
        //SOME STUFF


        //RETURN AN INT
        return 0;
    }

    public function getName()
    {
        return 'DoSomeStuff';
    }
}

The fire method of this class will be called how many times you defined it in the Job configuration.

mashtru uses a single table called mashtru_jobs, there the structure is as follows

CREATE TABLE mashtru_jobs(
    id SMALLINT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
    name VARCHAR(255),
    class_name VARCHAR(255) DEFAULT NULL,
    args TEXT DEFAULT NULL,
    delta_minutes INT DEFAULT NULL,
    active BOOL DEFAULT 1,
    fire_time TIMESTAMP NULL DEFAULT NULL,
    updated_at TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW() ON UPDATE NOW(),
    created_at TIMESTAMP NOT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY(id),
    INDEX `name` (`name`)
);

The class JobManager offers utility to install/uninstall/add/delete/update/get jobs from this table. The implementeation of those action is delegated to the library user. I will use it within a protected rest-api i.e. so I would be able to set manage the jobs using a rest-api.

This is a silly lib that I wrote for me, every help of feedback is well appreciated.

• Make table_name configurable
• Replace delta_minutes with cronjob-like configuration