Starting Workflows

To start a workflow, you must first create a workflow instance and then call the start() method on it. The workflow instance has several methods that can be used to interact with the workflow, such as id() to get the workflow's unique identifier, status() or running() to get the current status of the workflow, and output() to get the output data produced by the workflow.

use Workflow\WorkflowStub;

$workflow = WorkflowStub::make(MyWorkflow::class);
$workflow->start();

You can also pass data to the workflow via the start() method. Any data you pass in will be sent to the workflow's execute() method.

Once a workflow has been started, it will be executed asynchronously by a queue worker. The start() method returns immediately and does not block the current request.

You can obtain an instance of an existing workflow using its workflow ID.

use Workflow\WorkflowStub;

$workflow = WorkflowStub::load($id);