Cron

This class can be used to parse cron strings and compute schedules.

It can parse a given string with a schedule specification in cron format. The class can compute the last and the next schedule times relative to a given time.

Example

$cron = new \Hazaar\Cron('0,30 9-17 \* \* 1-5');
$next = $cron->getNextOccurrence();

This will get the next occurrence from the schedule which should return dates and times for every 0th and 30th minute between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.

Properties

ranges

Ranges.

private  $ranges = array (
  'IDX_MINUTE' => 
  array (
    'min' => 0,
    'max' => 59,
    'name' => 'i',
  ),
  0 => NULL,
  'IDX_HOUR' => 
  array (
    'min' => 0,
    'max' => 23,
    'name' => 'G',
  ),
  1 => NULL,
  'IDX_DAY' => 
  array (
    'min' => 1,
    'max' => 31,
    'name' => 'd',
  ),
  2 => NULL,
  'IDX_MONTH' => 
  array (
    'min' => 1,
    'max' => 12,
    'name' => 'm',
  ),
  3 => NULL,
  'IDX_WEEKDAY' => 
  array (
    'min' => 0,
    'max' => 7,
    'name' => 'w',
  ),
  4 => NULL,
)

intervals

Named intervals.

private  $intervals = array (
  '@yearly' => '0 0 1 1 *',
  '@annualy' => '0 0 1 1 *',
  '@monthly' => '0 0 1 * *',
  '@weekly' => '0 0 * * 0',
  '@midnight' => '0 0 * * *',
  '@daily' => '0 0 * * *',
  '@hourly' => '0 * * * *',
  '@reboot' => 'now',
)

keywords

Possible keywords for months/weekdays.

private  $keywords = array (
  'IDX_MONTH' => 
  array (
    '/(january|januar|jan)/i' => 1,
    '/(february|februar|feb)/i' => 2,
    '/(march|maerz|m�rz|mar|mae|m�r)/i' => 3,
    '/(april|apr)/i' => 4,
    '/(may|mai)/i' => 5,
    '/(june|juni|jun)/i' => 6,
    '/(july|juli|jul)/i' => 7,
    '/(august|aug)/i' => 8,
    '/(september|sep)/i' => 9,
    '/(october|oktober|okt|oct)/i' => 10,
    '/(november|nov)/i' => 11,
    '/(december|dezember|dec|dez)/i' => 12,
  ),
  'IDX_WEEKDAY' => 
  array (
    '/(sunday|sonntag|sun|son|su|so)/i' => 0,
    '/(monday|montag|mon|mo)/i' => 1,
    '/(tuesday|dienstag|die|tue|tu|di)/i' => 2,
    '/(wednesdays|mittwoch|mit|wed|we|mi)/i' => 3,
    '/(thursday|donnerstag|don|thu|th|do)/i' => 4,
    '/(friday|freitag|fre|fri|fr)/i' => 5,
    '/(saturday|samstag|sam|sat|sa)/i' => 6,
  ),
)

pcron

public int $pcron

Methods

__construct

Creates a new instance of the Cron class.

public __construct(string $expression): void

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
$expression	string	The CRON expression to parse

getNextOccurrence

Calculates the next time and date based on the supplied expression.

public getNextOccurrence(?int $timestamp): ?int

If a reference-time is passed, the next time and date after that time is calculated.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
$timestamp	int	optional reference-time

getLastOccurrence

Calculates the last time and date before the supplied expression.

public getLastOccurrence(?int $timestamp): ?int

If a reference-time is passed, the last time and date before that time is calculated.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
$timestamp	int	optional reference-time

calculateDateTime

Calculates the time and date at which the next/last call of a cronjob is/was due.

private calculateDateTime(array $rtime, bool $next = true): ?int

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
$rtime	array	reference-time
$next	bool	true = nextOccurence, false = lastOccurence

getTimestamp

Converts an unix-timestamp to an array.

private getTimestamp(?int $timestamp): void

The returned array contains the following values:

[0] -> minute [1] -> hour [2] -> day [3] -> month [4] -> weekday [5] -> year

The array is used by various functions.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
$timestamp	int	If none is given, the current time is used

findValue

Checks if the given value exists in an array.

private findValue(int $value, mixed $data, boolean $next = true): void

If it does not exist, the next higher/lower value is returned (depending on $next). If no higher/lower value exists, false is returned.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
$value	int
$data	mixed
$next	boolean

arrayReverse

Reverses all sub-arrays of our cron array.

private arrayReverse(array $cron): void

The reversed values are used for calculations that are run when getLastOccurence() is called.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
$cron	array

parse

Analyses crontab-expressions like "* * 1,2,3 * mon,tue" and returns an array containing all values.

private parse(string $expression): mixed

If it can not be parsed then it returns FALSE

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
$expression	string	the cron-expression to parse

expandSegment

Analyses a single segment.

private expandSegment(int $idx, string $segment, false $): void

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
$idx	int
$segment	string
$	false

parseAtom

Analyses a single segment.

private parseAtom(string $atom): void

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
$atom	string	The segment to parse

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