in this tuto, I'll show you how to run cron programmatically in Drupal 8.
Drupal core has an Interface for running cron tasks Drupal\Core\CronInterface.
To Execute a cron run, juste apply Drupal\Core\CronInterface::run() method.
<?php
namespace Drupal\mymodule\Controller;
use Drupal\Core\Controller\ControllerBase;
use Drupal\Core\CronInterface;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;
/**
* Class MyModuleController
* @package Drupal\mymodule\Controller
*/
class MyModuleController extends ControllerBase
{
/**
* @var CronInterface
*/
protected $cron;
/**
* MyModuleController constructor.
* @param CronInterface $cron
*/
public function __construct(CronInterface $cron){
$this->cron = $cron;
}
/**
* @param ContainerInterface $container
* @return ControllerBase|MyModuleController
*/
public static function create(ContainerInterface $container) {
return new static(
$container->get('cron')
);
}
/**
* @return array
*/
public function index()
{
$this->cron->run();
$this->messenger()->addMessage($this->t('Cron ran successfully.'));
return array(
'#type' => 'markup',
'#markup' => "Cron ran successfully."
);
}
}
