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Firing a job based on a date due in the database

Hi guys,

I'm on forge & Laravel 4.2 I need to fire events based on a due date stored in my DB. I have no clue how to do that? What's the best practice? A cron job that checks every days or hour if the date is due?

Thanks for guiding me in the right direction :-)

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+1 for the Dispatcher package or just create a new Artisan command then add that to the cron list

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commandantp's avatar

Ended up creating an artisan command and using the scheduler in forge :-) works well thanks!

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