I'm trying to start a process with Symfony in my Laravel app on my shared hosting server that will call an Artisan command with parameters like so:
$process = new Process(['/usr/local/bin/php', base_path('artisan'), 'queue:work --stop-when-empty']);
$process->setTimeout(null);
$process->start();
This does not work as I get:
ERROR: Command "queue:work --stop-when-empty" is not defined.
Did you mean one of these?
queue:batches-table
queue:clear
queue:failed
queue:failed-table
queue:flush
queue:forget
queue:listen
queue:monitor
queue:prune-batches
queue:prune-failed
queue:restart
queue:retry
queue:retry-batch
queue:table
queue:work {"exception":"[object] (Symfony\\Component\\Console\\Exception\\CommandNotFoundException(code: 0): Command \"queue:work --stop-when-empty\" is not defined.
The problem is with the parameter --stop-when-empty
as the command runs succesfully wthout it. How can I pass this parameter to the command ?
The process adds quotes around each array value that you pass in. Right now, it's attempting to run
"exec '/usr/local/bin/php' '/your/path/to/artisan' 'queue:work --stop-when-empty'"
So by adding quotes around the whole string, it's treating 'queue:work --stop-when-empty'
as a single command, instead of a command and option. Separate out the command so that it will quote it properly
$process = new Process(['/usr/local/bin/php', base_path('artisan'), 'queue:work', '--stop-when-empty']);