mtdowling/cron-expression

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A PHP library for parsing CRON expressions, determining whether a schedule is due, and calculating the next or previous run dates. This original fork by mtdowling is deprecated; development has moved to the dragonmantank/cron-expression fork.

Use cases

• parse cron expressions in php
• calculate next run date of a cron schedule
• check if a cron job is due to run
• compute previous run date of a cron expression
• validate cron syntax like ranges and lists
• schedule tasks with cron strings in php applications

When to choose

• you are maintaining a legacy PHP project already depending on mtdowling/cron-expression
• you need a battle-tested cron parser for PHP 7.0+ with no new features required

When to avoid

• you are starting a new PHP project - use dragonmantank/cron-expression instead
• you need ongoing maintenance, bug fixes, or modern PHP version support
• you need scheduling execution itself rather than expression parsing

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

scheduling date-time parser developer-tools backend php cross-platform cron cron-expression deprecated scheduling automation

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