Laravel Redis

Description

Enhancements to redis driver, such as enabling a serializer and/or compression

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require vemcogroup/laravel-redis

Remember to have redis installed with serializer and compression.
Answer yes to serializer and compression.

pecl upgrade -f redis

If you are missing igbinary

pecl install igbinary

If you are missing libzstd

brew install zstd

Usage

Start by selection the new driver vredis in you .env file:

REDIS_CLIENT=vredis

Compression

To use compression you have to set the type in database.php for your redis connection:

'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'),
    'options' => [
        'compression' => Redis::COMPRESSION_NONE,
    ],
],

You can use any of the Redis compressions available from you installation:
Redis::COMPRESSION_NONE, Redis::COMPRESSION_ZSTD, Redis::COMPRESSION_LZ4

Serializer

To use serialization you have to set the type in database.php for your redis connection:

'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'),
    'options' => [
        'serializer' => Redis::SERIALIZER_NONE,
    ],
],

You can use any of the Redis serializers available from you installation:
Redis::SERIALIZER_NONE, Redis::SERIALIZER_PHP, Redis::SERIALIZER_IGBINARY, Redis::SERIALIZER_MSGPACK, Redis::SERIALIZER_JSON