Validating Crontab Entries with PHP

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Who said regular expressions can’t do that?

Courtesy of my employer, Salir.com, here’s a PHPUnit test which does such validation. Feel free to modify & distribute. I’ll appreciate if you keep the @author notice & link to web site.

<?php
/**
 * @author Jordi Salvat i Alabart - with thanks to <a href="www.salir.com">Salir.com</a>.
 */

abstract class CrontabChecker extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
    protected function assertFileIsValidUserCrontab($file) {
        $f= @fopen($file, 'r', 1);
        $this->assertTrue($f !== false, 'Crontab file must exist');
        while (($line= fgets($f)) !== false) {
            $this->assertLineIsValid($line);
        }
    }

    protected function assertLineIsValid($line) {
        $regexp= $this->buildRegexp();
        $this->assertTrue(preg_match("/$regexp/", $line) !== 0);
    }

    private function buildRegexp() {
        $numbers= array(
            'min'=>'[0-5]?\d',
            'hour'=>'[01]?\d|2[0-3]',
            'day'=>'0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01]',
            'month'=>'[1-9]|1[012]',
            'dow'=>'[0-7]'
        );

        foreach($numbers as $field=>$number) {
            $range= "($number)(-($number)(\/\d+)?)?";
            $field_re[$field]= "\*(\/\d+)?|$range(,$range)*";
        }

        $field_re['month'].='|jan|feb|mar|apr|may|jun|jul|aug|sep|oct|nov|dec';
        $field_re['dow'].='|mon|tue|wed|thu|fri|sat|sun';

        $fields_re="(".join(')\s+(', $field_re).')';

        $replacements="@reboot|@yearly|@annually|@monthly|@weekly|@daily|@midnight|@hourly";

        return '^\s*('.
                '$'.
                '|#'.
                '|\w+\s*='.
                "|$fields_re\s+\S".
                "|($replacements)\s+\S".
            ')';
    }
}

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