tomk/cronparser

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

CronParser

, _(*1)

PHP class to parse CRON format and check for time matches, or determine next and previous matching times., _(*2)

Installation

Add this package to your composer.json required section, _(*3)

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

Usage

The following public methods are available., _(*4)

// 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], _(*5)