Laravel 4 'database' queue driver

Adds a 'database' queue driver to Laravel 4.

Installation

Use composer require to add this package to your composer.json file and install it:

composer require relaxsd/l4-database-queue:^1.0

Add the Service Provider to the providers array in config/app.php. Make sure to add it after the Illuminate\Queue\QueueServiceProvider.

    'providers' => array(

         /* Make sure to add after QueueServiceProvider */
         'Relaxsd\Queue\L4DatabaseServiceProvider'

    ),

Driver Prerequisites

Database

In order to use the database queue driver, you will need a database table to hold the jobs. To generate a migration that creates this table, run the queue:table Artisan command. Once the migration has been created, you may migrate your database using the migrate command:

php artisan queue:table

php artisan migrate

Configuration

Finally, add the database queue driver to config/queue.php:

   /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Default Queue Driver
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    */

    'default'     => 'database',

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Queue Connections
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    */

    'connections' => array(

        ...
        
        'database'   => array(
            'driver' => 'database',
            'table' => 'jobs',
            'queue' => 'default',
            'retry_after' => 90,
        )

    )