Add a function that identifies whether WordPress is doing a cron

[pikamander2]

Ideally, there would be three possible return values:

1. A value that indicates that no cron is being performed

2. A value that indicates that a WP_CRON is being performed

3. A value that indicates that a cron is being performed via the CLI

This would mostly be helpful for logging purposes. For example, some hosts use a setup in which crons are run by a different user than normal (apache, root, www-data, etc), which can affect things like your environment variables and file permissions.

Even though it's not strictly necessary, it would be helpful to have it as an option.

[Clorith]

Hiya,

There's actually a way to do this already, either with the function ​wp_doing_cron() (recommended), or looking for the constant DOING_CRON and seeing if it's true.

As for if it's being performed via CLI, that can be done by looking at the PHP native function ​php_sapi_name(), you'll see cli as the output if it's on the command line.

Since these options already exist, I'm going to mark this ticket as closed, but if you feel there's something that could be done better, please do follow up in here, as it's just a task-management status, and conversations can still continue.