Laravel 5: Dispatching Queued Jobs Immediately With dispatch_now

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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