UPDATE: This module is somewhat discontinued. See Ultimate Cron instead.
This module is inspired by the Elysia Cron module (a big thanks to Eric Berdondini)
The module takes over the normal operations of cron, and parallelises each job, so they can
run concurrently
Features:
- Completely transparent, eg. compatibility mode for cronapi support only.
- crontab-like scheduling configuration of each job.
- TRUE parallel execution of jobs, through multi_curl
- time statistics of each job
- modules can define extra cron tasks, each one with own default cron-rules (site administrators can override them by configuration).
- protection from external cron calling by magic key.
- group jobs together to split load onto multiple server. call parallel_cron.php with ?group=[groupname]
- enable/disable jobs
Example code:
// Default cron-function, configurable through /admin/build/cron/settings
function mymodule_cron() {
// Do some stuff ...
}
// Define custom cron functions
function mymodule_cronapi($op, $job = NULL) {
switch($op) {
case 'list':
return array(
'mymodule_cronjob_1' => 'Cron-1 Handler',
'mymodule_cronjob_2' => 'Cron-2 Handler',
'mymodule_cronjob_3' => 'Cron-3 Handler',
);
case 'rule':
switch($job) {