XF 2.3 Manual Cron Job Detection

[QuackieMackie]

I've now taken the time to look through cron jobs, and I didn't see anything that would let me see if a cron job is run manually or if it was automated.

Has anyone seen something I've missed?

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As a tempory fix I created a specific way of running the job. If you force a cron job to run it will have the flag automatic. Then I modified my template to have a button that will run the job. When the button is pressed it instead passes the manual flag.

It feels like such a hodge podge method, but it works... If anyone has a better solution please let me know

 

[QuackieMackie]

I thought the database table xf_job would be a good place to find it. I was kind of correct, it has a flag for manual_execute but it doesn't have all the cron jobs registered on there. Just cron, xfCollectStats, xfUpgradeCheck the value cron seems to be linked with all the cron jobs (When I say linked I mean when any of the cron jobs get run,. the time stamp updates for the unique_key cron), so there doesn't look to be a way of detecting which specific cron job has been run. It also seems to not change the manual_execute when the job is run.

 

[Jeremy P]

Not all cron entries are jobs exactly (though cron itself is run via the job queue). The general pattern would be to have a static cron method which enqueues your job, and then a template modification for tools_rebuild which allows for manually running the job when needed.

 

[QuackieMackie]

Not all cron entries are jobs exactly (though cron itself is run via the job queue). The general pattern would be to have a static cron method which enqueues your job, and then a template modification for tools_rebuild which allows for manually running the job when needed.

Thank you this pretty much confirmed what I'd figured out while messing with it.