AutomationBundle¶
The AutomationBundle provides the functionality for managing automated tasks. This tasks can be used for example to publish or unpublish pages at a specific timestamp. This handlers (like publish) can be implemented by the application or any bundle.
Basic Ideas¶
The basic idea behind this bundle was to enhance the content manager with the possibility to plan when a page will be online. But also other tasks should be possible. One of many scenarios could be to send a mail after 6 months to check the content of the page
As basic implementation for task scheduling and running the PHP-Task Library and the Bundle was used.
Note
Outside the “automation” bundle the PHP-Task Library can be used for recurring or single-time tasks which are necessary for your application. For more information about the library and the bundle itself take a look at the PHP-Task Documentation.
As recommended run-mode (beside the kernel.terminate Listener) you should
use the task:run command inside a cron-job. For the interval of
the cron-job you have to decide how precise the task should run at the
given timestamp. For example if you choose an interval of 1 hour the tasks
will only run each hour.
Installation¶
All of the dependencies will be installed automatically with sulu/sulu.
Because of this you only have to register the AutomationBundle and the
TaskBundle in your Kernel and app/config/admin/routing.yml file.
...
// php-task
new Task\TaskBundle\TaskBundle(),
// sulu
new Sulu\Bundle\AutomationBundle\SuluAutomationBundle(),
...
sulu_automation_api:
type: rest
resource: "@SuluAutomationBundle/Resources/config/routing_api.xml"
prefix: /admin/api
sulu_automation:
type: rest
resource: "@SuluAutomationBundle/Resources/config/routing.xml"
prefix: /admin/automation
For recommended run mode and other settings you should use the default configuration.
