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sebastianfeldmann/crontab
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Manage your crontab with some simple PHP commands.

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Crontab
=======

[](#crontab)

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Features
--------

[](#features)

Lists all cron jobs with a nice OO interface. Add jobs to your crontab.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP >= 7.0
- POSIX Shell with crontab command

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Installing *crontab* via Composer.

```
  "require": {
    "sebastianfeldmann/crontab": "~1.0"
  }
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Read crontab

[](#read-crontab)

```
$crontab = new SebastianFeldmann\Crontab\Operator();
foreach ($crontab->getJobs() as $job) {
    echo "Description: . PHP_EOL . implode(PHP_EOL, $job->getComments()) . PHP_EOL;
    echo "Schedule: " . PHP_EOL . $job->getSchedule() . PHP_EOL;
    echo "Command: " . PHP_EOL . $job->getCommand() . PHP_EOL;
}
```

### Add job to crontab

[](#add-job-to-crontab)

```
$crontab = new SebastianFeldmann\Crontab\Operator();
$crontab->addJob(
    new SebastianFeldmann\Crontab\Job(
        '30 4 * * *',
        '/foo/bar/binary',
        ['Some foo bar binary execution']
    )
);
```

This will add the following lines to your crontab.

```
# Some foobar binary execution
30 4 * * * /foo/bar/binary

```

The crontab parser is looking for commands and their description in the lines above the command. The parser expects commands to **NOT** spread over multiple lines with \\.

```
# Descriptoon for some command
10 23 * * * some command

# Next Command Description
# even more description for the next command
30 5 * * * next command

```

###  Health Score

19

—

LowBetter than 10% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity33

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 82.4% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

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