tomk/cronparser

Parse CRON format and check for time matches, or get next/previous match

dev-master 2014-09-04 08:15 UTC

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: *

MIT

• Tom Kay

• cron
• crontab

README

PHP class to parse CRON format and check for time matches, or determine next and previous matching times.

Installation

Add this package to your composer.json required section

"required": {
  "tomk/cronparser":"*"
}

Usage

The following public methods are available.

// Returns true if pattern is valid format, false otherwise
CronParser::isValid(string $pattern);

// Returns true if the time matches the pattern supplied.
CronParser::isDue(string $pattern [, $time = time()]);

// Returns a DateTime object of the next matching time from $time.
// If $now is true, will accept $time as a match. Otherwise finds the next match in the future.
CronParser::nextRun(string $pattern [, $time = time() [, $now = false]]);

// Returns a DateTime object of the previous matching time from $time.
// If $now is true, will accept $time as a match. Otherwise finds the next match in the past.
CronParser::prevRun(string $pattern [, $time = time() [, $now = false]]);

CRON expression

Please see CRON format on wikipedia for reference: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron#CRON_expression]