l4mysqlqueue

A laravel 4 queue driver using MySQL database, developed for small websites on shared hosting.

Fully functional and 100% native. No special artisan commands for firing jobs required or provided.

Features

• Support native queue:listen, queue:work and other artisan commands.
• Attempts count are recorded.
• Support multiple queues.
• Only use 1 table. Customizable table name .
• Works correctly with any database table prefix, collation and charset.
• MySQL only. (small changes may need for other types of database)

Installation

Add dependency to your composer.json and run composer update:

"shamiao/l4mysqlqueue": "~1.0"

Add service provider to configuration value app.providers in config/app.php:

'Shamiao\L4mysqlqueue\L4mysqlqueueServiceProvider'

Setup mysql driver in config/queue.php:

    'default' => 'mysql', // ... or any connection name you like

    'mysql' => array(
        'driver' => 'mysql',
        'queue'  => 'default', // Optional
        'table'  => 'queue',  // Optional
    ),

Run database migrations of this package before using it:

php artisan migrate --package="shamiao/l4mysqlqueue"

Configuration values

Default queue name

• Configuration value: queue.connections.<connname>.queue
• Optional, assumes default if not specified.
• Omitting this value is recommended.

Table name

• Configuration value: queue.connections.<connname>.table
• Optional, assumes queue if not specified.
• Omitting this value is recommended.
• No prefix (if your app uses table name prefix feature).

Firing jobs

Just use queue:listen and queue:work artisan commands as Queues page of Laravel Documentations suggests.

On a shared hosting without shell access, consider adding following command to your cron jobs list to fire one job every minute:

* * * * * ( cd /home/username/your/laravel/dir; php artisan queue:work --tries=3; )

Notes

• You may need SSH access or cron jobs privileges in your cPanel/DirectAdmin control panel to run composer or php artisan console commands.
• Jobs are soft-deleted (only marking status as 'deleted' instead of SQL DELETE). Consider making your own schedule to delete deprecated jobs from database manually.