crontinel/php

Framework-agnostic PHP core for Crontinel. Provides monitor contracts, typed data objects, alert management with deduplication, and cron expression helpers.

If you use Laravel, install crontinel/laravel instead. It pulls in this package automatically and adds service providers, dashboard, Artisan commands, and event listeners.

Install crontinel/php directly when you are:

• Building an adapter for Symfony, Slim, or another framework
• Integrating Crontinel into a vanilla PHP application
• Writing a custom monitor that does not depend on Laravel

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Requirements

• PHP 8.2, 8.3, or 8.4

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Installation

composer require crontinel/php

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What this package provides

Contracts

• MonitorInterface -- implement isHealthy(): bool to create a custom monitor
• AlertChannelInterface -- implement send(AlertEvent $event): void to deliver alerts via any transport (Slack, email, webhook, etc.)

Data objects

Immutable, readonly value objects used across the stack:

• AlertEvent -- key, title, message, level (critical / warning / info / resolved), fired timestamp
• CronStatus -- command, expression, status, last run metadata, next due time
• HorizonStatus -- Horizon supervisor state
• QueueStatus -- queue depth, failed count, oldest job age

Alert management

AlertManager handles fire/resolve lifecycle with built-in deduplication. It accepts any PSR-16 cache and any AlertChannelInterface implementation:

• Deduplicates repeated alerts for the same key (default: 5 min TTL)
• Auto-sends "resolved" notifications when an issue clears
• Logs failures via PSR-3 logger (falls back to NullLogger)

Cron expression helpers

CronExpressionHelper wraps dragonmantank/cron-expression with convenience methods:

• nextDue(string $expression) -- next scheduled run as DateTimeImmutable
• previousDue(string $expression) -- last scheduled run
• isLate(DateTimeInterface $lastRunAt, string $expression, int $graceSeconds = 120) -- whether a job has missed its window

Built-in monitors

Ready-to-use monitor implementations (all implement MonitorInterface):

• CronMonitor, HorizonMonitor, QueueMonitor

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Usage example

Implement MonitorInterface to build a custom health check:

use Crontinel\Contracts\MonitorInterface;

final class DiskSpaceMonitor implements MonitorInterface
{
    public function __construct(
        private readonly string $path = '/',
        private readonly float $minFreePercent = 10.0,
    ) {}

    public function isHealthy(): bool
    {
        $free = disk_free_space($this->path);
        $total = disk_total_space($this->path);

        return ($free / $total) * 100 >= $this->minFreePercent;
    }
}

Wire up alert delivery by implementing AlertChannelInterface:

use Crontinel\Contracts\AlertChannelInterface;
use Crontinel\Data\AlertEvent;

final class WebhookChannel implements AlertChannelInterface
{
    public function __construct(
        private readonly string $url,
    ) {}

    public function send(AlertEvent $event): void
    {
        file_get_contents($this->url, false, stream_context_create([
            'http' => [
                'method' => 'POST',
                'header' => 'Content-Type: application/json',
                'content' => json_encode([
                    'key'      => $event->key,
                    'title'    => $event->title,
                    'message'  => $event->message,
                    'level'    => $event->level,
                    'resolved' => $event->resolved,
                ]),
            ],
        ]));
    }
}

Then use AlertManager to fire and resolve alerts:

use Crontinel\Alert\AlertManager;

// Requires any PSR-16 cache implementation
$alertManager = new AlertManager(
    cache: $cache,
    channel: new WebhookChannel('https://example.com/webhook'),
);

$monitor = new DiskSpaceMonitor('/data');

if (! $monitor->isHealthy()) {
    $alertManager->fire('disk.data', 'Low disk space', 'Disk /data is below 10% free', 'critical');
} else {
    $alertManager->resolve('disk.data');
}

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Ecosystem

Package	Description
crontinel/php (this repo)	Framework-agnostic PHP core
crontinel/laravel	Laravel package with dashboard, Artisan commands, and event listeners
crontinel/mcp-server	MCP server for AI assistants (Claude, Cursor)
docs.crontinel.com	Full documentation
app.crontinel.com	Hosted SaaS dashboard

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License

MIT. See LICENSE.

Built by Harun R Rayhan · crontinel.com