Laravel Redis Tutorial

Introduction

Learn how to use Redis in Laravel to cache data and improve performance.

Installation

composer require predis/predis

Add Redis configuration in .env:

REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1
REDIS_PASSWORD=null
REDIS_PORT=6379

Configuration

Configure Redis in config/database.php:

'redis' => [
    'client' => env('REDIS_CLIENT', 'predis'),
    'default' => [
        'url' => env('REDIS_URL'),
        'host' => env('REDIS_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
        'password' => env('REDIS_PASSWORD', null),
        'port' => env('REDIS_PORT', 6379),
        'database' => env('REDIS_DB', 0),
    ],
],

Usage

Storing Data

Redis::set('key', 'value');

Retrieving Data

$value = Redis::get('key');

Caching Data

Cache::put('key', 'value', 600);