Cron Job in Laravel | How to Setup Cron Job ?

In This tutorial we’re going to learn how to use Cron job in Laravel with using schedule command I have to inserted every 5 seconds data in database using Cron job.

php artisan make:command CronJob --command=cron:test

php artisan make:model Item -m

Next go to migration and put the below code.

public function up(): void
    {
        Schema::create('items', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('item_name');
            $table->string('specs');
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

Next go to Item model and put the below code
C:\xampp\htdocs\learning\cron_jb\app\Models\Item.php

protected $guarded = [];

Next to migrate the table using below command.

php artisan migrate

Next go to and put there condition :- C:\xampp\htdocs\learning\cron_jb\app\Console\Commands\CronJob.php

public function handle()
    {
        Item::create([
            'item_name'=>'Hi testing Item',
            'specs'=>'Our testing specs',
        ]);
    }

Next go to C:\xampp\htdocs\learning\cron_jb\app\Console\Kernel.php

 protected $command = [
        Commands\CronJob::class,
     ];

protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule): void
    {
        $schedule->command('cron:test')->everyFiveSeconds();
    }

Run below command for test cron job

php artisan schedule:work

Now successfully data inserted in database.

Thanks for reading 👍👍.