Laravel Queue doesnt run as background

Question

hi i created a laravel queue job to send mails

public function handle() {
    foreach($this->emails as $value) {
            $to         = $value->email;
            $subject    = $this->data['subject'];       
            $this->data['t_firstname']    = $value->firstname;
            $this->data['t_lastname']     = $value->lastname;
            if (view()->exists('mail.requirement_to_tutor')) {
                    $view = view('mail.requirement_to_tutor',$this->data);
                    $html = $view->render();
            }
            file_put_contents('test.txt', 'test database');
            $body = $html;
            $headers  = "From: " . $this->data['from'] . "\r\nReply-To: " . $this->data['from'] . "";
            $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
            $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset: utf8\r\n";
            mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
    }
}

and also i am pushing datas from repo

$obj = (new SendStudentRequirement($TutorsbyCity,$data));
$this->dispatch($obj);

but it doesnot run as background , the function is waiting untill the queue finish , help me out please

Answer 1

By default the sync driver is used. You should change this to another driver that is listed in config/queue.php

Look for the following line in your .env file and adjust to a different driver:

QUEUE_DRIVER=sync

Laravel - Docs - Queues

Answer 2

You are using a default configuration of "sync" , that means that all queue jobs will run synchronously instead of "fire and forget" way. To change this default behavior you can follow these steps:

1. Select a diferent Queue Connection

Open the .env configuration file and add QUEUE_DRIVER parameter with one of the supported values: "database", "beanstalkd", "sqs" or "redis". In this case we are going to use a database connection as an example mode: QUEUE_DRIVER=database

2. Edit connection driver

Open the /config/queue.php file and configure your driver connection, for example:

'database' => [
            'driver' => 'mongodb',
            'table' => 'jobs',
            'queue' => 'default',
            'retry_after' => 90
        ]

Then run the next commands to create the new jobs table:

php artisan config:cache && php artisan queue:table

So, you already have the queue as "fire and forget" way; you can try and see how the jobs table was created with the information of the queue.

3. Configure a process manager for a long-running

To execute the pending queues in the future we can use a process manager as supervisor . You can install supervisor for Ubuntu and Debian running the following command: sudo apt-get install supervisor

Then open the supervisor file: sudo nano /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf and add a line like the following to the end of the file:

[program:laravel-worker-QUEUE_NAME]
process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
command= php /var/www/MY_PROJECT/artisan queue:work --queue=QUEUE_NAME --sleep=15
autostart=true
autorestart=true
user=root
numprocs=1
redirect_stderr=true
stdout_logfile=/var/www/MY_PROJECT/storage/logs/worker.log

Replace the values of: QUEUE_NAME and MY_PROJECT . Note that the --sleep parameter is the time (seconds) to verify for new queues in the database. You can see more details of the configuration file in the official documentation .

Finally execute these commands to enable the program:

sudo supervisorctl reread && sudo supervisorctl update

You can check the status of the queues in the configured log file: /var/www/MY_PROJECT/storage/logs/worker.log