Automatic calling of function

Question

I have function in controller for generating pool(game) each day after one expires.But it invokes only when I calling that function.I need to generate pool automatically.That means generate pool without calling the function manually.

Answer 1

Welcome to SO! it looks like you're trying to create a Scheduled task, you can find the documentation here: https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/scheduling

to quickly explain the basics of implementing a scheduled task, you'll want to create a cronjob that runs every second depending on your Os, the way you go around this might differ, in windows, use the Task Scheduler, on Unix based systems, you need to define one in a different way, this might help: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-add-jobs-to-cron-under-linux-or-unix-oses/

this cronjon will run the php artisan schedule:run command, which will in turn execute the Laravel Task Schedule.

now you want to define your schedule, In the class App\Console\Kernel there will be a method called schedule(Schedule $schedule), here you will add a new schedule using the call method to start your new pool.

I imagine it would look something like this:

protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule) {
    // Telling laravel what the schedule has to do
    $schedule->call(function () {
        Pool::startNew(); // Dummy function, this would be the method that starts your game
    })->daily(); // Runs the task at Midnight every day
}

you can ofcourse run as many scheduled tasks as you want, and intergrate them with other laravel components such as events.

I hope this helped you get started with the daily scheduling.

quick edit: if you want to use a controller method, check out this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/37278604/4359569