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hello guys i want to prepare an email to be sent after 50 days when the user click on a button then go to controller i found "later" method but i did not work, its sends the email immediately. also i found "scheduler" but i could not understand how to work with it because its about every day , monthly, yearly,... what i want is after specific date only may laravel is 5.2
The later method only works when you use a real queue I believe, for example redis, but you need a queue. You can try it with a database queue though
There were some problems with this in Laravel 5.2 and 5.3. This should be completely fixed in Laravel 5.4: https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/mail#queueing-mail.
The scheduler fires when ever you need it. Probably in your case every day. Then the scheduler fires a command. In the command you can query and get any users That clicked the button 50 days or more where you haven't sent an email yet (assuming you store that data somewhere). After email successfully sent, mark the data row (update Boolean value) so you don't send again.
Scheduler is based off a single cron job. A nice wrapper to schedule tasks.
@jekinney's suggestion makes a lot more sense than shoving it into a queue to wait 50 days. Store the necessary information in the database, and check that table daily for any items that are now 50 days old, and process them, at which point you could either remove them or mark them as processed with a date stamp/etc.
Using a redis or similar queue, for this particular use case seems entirely wrong to me.
@willvincent do you mean i use the method daily in Scheduler then i make if condition if that date more than 50 days, the function sends the email?
@sandstorm as @jekinney suggested, yes I think that makes the most sense in your case given the length of the delay you're looking for before taking action.
@sandstorm As suggested by @jekinney, the best approach (and the one that immediately sprung to mind to me) was to set up a scheduler task that runs every day and each day it runs, you check for users who “clicked a button” 50 days ago and send them the email.
thanx all of you guys @jekinney @bobbybouwmann @willvincent @martinbean problems never ends. now i try to set up scheduler
i try this command
i try to type in cmd "crontab -e" the error is 'crontab' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Are you working in a windows environment? It doesn't have cron.
yes i work in windows 10 if so, there is no other why?
@sandstorm you'll need to change the path.
php /path/to/artisan the path to artisan is the path to the directory your application is in... so it might be something like php /var/www/myapp/artisan
@vmitchell85 i change it this way C:>* * * * * php /xampp/htdocs/training-portal/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1 The system cannot find the path specified.
as you see still have problem
is it correct path? my actual path is C:\xampp\htdocs\training-portal
Windows do not support Cron Jobs, you have to either create a schedule task in windows or switch to linux environment.
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