RockDaemon - Easy Background Task Management for ProcessWire ✅

[bernhard]

RockDaemon simplifies running long-running background tasks (daemons) with automatic lifecycle management. Ideal for tasks like PDF generation, email processing, or data synchronization that need to run continuously via cron jobs.

Why RockDaemon?

Running long-running tasks in PHP can be challenging:

• Preventing multiple instances from running simultaneously
• Manual restart capabilities
• Automatic restart after deployments
• Signal handling and graceful shutdown
• Debug output control
• Command-line argument parsing
• Hosting environment compatibility

RockDaemon solves these problems with a simple, cron-based approach.

Example

<?php
// pdf-daemon.php
namespace ProcessWire;

use RockDaemon\Daemon;

require_once __DIR__ . '/public/index.php';

$rockdaemon = wire()->modules->get('RockDaemon');
$daemon = $rockdaemon->new('pdf-daemon');

$daemon
  ->run(function (Daemon $daemon) {
    // get a newspaper page that has the "createPdf" checkbox enabled
    $p = wire()->pages->get([
      'template' => 'newspaper',
      'createPdf' => 1,
    ]);
    if (!$p->id) return $daemon->echo('Nothing to do');

    $timer = Debug::startTimer();
    $p->createPdf();
    $ms = Debug::stopTimer($timer) * 1000;

    $daemon->log(
      message: "created PDF for $p in {$ms}ms",
      logname: "pdf-create",
      pruneDays: 30,
    );

    $daemon->run();
  });

Docs + Download: baumrock.com/RockDaemon

Showcase in PW Weekly: https://weekly.pw/issue/590/

[Robin S]

Thanks for the module! Just wondering about the name. Maybe it should be RockDaemon, or is that an intentional misspelling?

[bernhard]

Thx that was not intentional 🙂