By John Koster
The dispatch_now function can be used to process a job within the current PHP process. This function will skip the job queue entirely and execute the job's task immediately.
#Signature
The signature of the dispatch_now function is:
1function dispatch_now(
2 $job,
3 $handler = null
4);
#Example Use
We will create a simple job that will dump the value Hello, Universe value and stop the script's execution.
In app/Jobs/SayHello.php:
1<?php
2
3namespace App\Jobs;
4
5use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
6use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
7use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
8use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
9use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\Dispatchable;
10
11class SayHello implements ShouldQueue
12{
13 use Dispatchable, InteractsWithQueue, Queueable, SerializesModels;
14
15 /**
16 * Create a new job instance.
17 *
18 * @return void
19 */
20 public function __construct()
21 {
22 //
23 }
24
25 /**
26 * Execute the job.
27 *
28 * @return void
29 */
30 public function handle()
31 {
32 dd('Hello, Universe');
33 }
34}
We can observe the behavior of the dispatch_now function by invoking it like so:
1$job = new App\Jobs\SayHello;
2
3dispatch_now($job);
If the above code was executed in a browser, the following would be displayed on the screen:
1Hello, Universe
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