Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

Cron jobs

Creating a new cron job is as easy as doing the following:

1. Creating a job definition under the <ModuleName>/etc/crontab.xml file
2. Creating a class with a public method that handles the job execution

Let's create a simple cron job. We will start off by creating the <MAGELICIOUS_DIR>/Core/etc/crontab.xml file with the following content:

<group id="default">    <job name="the_job" instance="Magelicious\Core\Cron\TheJob" method="execute">        <schedule>*/15 * * * *</schedule>    </job></group>

The instance and method values map to the class and method within that class, which will be executed when cron job is run. The schedule is a cron, like the expression for when the job is to be executed. Unless there are specific requirements telling us ...