A simple demo of running a scheduled PHP process on Heroku.

1. Clone this repo

    $ git clone https://github.com/ryanbrainard/php-scheduler-demo.git
   

2. Go in the dir

    $ cd php-scheduler-demo
   

3. Create the Heroku app with the buildpack set to a fork of the PHP buildpack that support the PHP CLI

    $ heroku create --buildpack https://github.com/ryanbrainard/heroku-buildpack-php.git
   

4. Push the code to Heroku

    $ git push heroku master
   

5. Test the script by running it in a one-off worker dyno just to see it work before scheduling it

    $ heroku run php www/script.php
    Running `php www/script.php` attached to terminal... up, run.6599
    Current time: 1359943709 
   

6. Add the Scheduler Add-on

    $ heroku addons:add scheduler:standard 
   

7. Open the scheduler configuration page

    $ heroku addons:open scheduler
   

8. Add the script as a job. Same as one-off step above, but without the heroku run - Add job... - $ bin/php www/script.php

9. View the scheduled job running in the logs

    $ heroku logs
    ...
    2013-02-04T01:55:13+00:00 heroku[api]: Starting process with command `bin/php www/script.php` by [email protected]
    2013-02-04T01:55:16+00:00 heroku[scheduler.4997]: Starting process with command `bin/php www/script.php`
    2013-02-04T01:55:16+00:00 app[scheduler.4997]: Current time: 1359942916
    2013-02-04T01:55:18+00:00 heroku[scheduler.4997]: Process exited with status 0
    2013-02-04T01:55:18+00:00 heroku[scheduler.4997]: State changed from starting to complete
    ...