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Reputation: 2494

How to set up PhpRedis in Laravel 5+?

Background
Attempting to use PhpRedis in Laravel 5.3 on a Mac OSX local server
running Apache 2.4.18, Php 7.0.14 and homebrew
...without requiring additional (non-official) composer libraries

Redis is installed via homebrew install redis and working
tested by redis-cli ping which gives PONG

PhpRedis installed via homebrew install php70-redis and working
tested by php -r "if (new Redis() == true){ echo \"\r\n OK \r\n\"; }" which gives OK

Setup
With the documentation and this SO Laravel 4 solution I do the following:

  1. change (or comment & add) alias definition in app/config/app.php from
    'Redis' => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redis'
    to
    'LRedis' => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redis'
  2. add client definition to the redis database definition in config/database.php
    'client' => 'phpredis',
  3. run composer dump-autoload and php artisan optimize

  4. use that renamed alias in an example route code:

    Route::get('redistesturl', function () { $app = LRedis::connection(); $app->set("name", "Bob Cool"); print_r($app->get("name")); });

Errors 

FatalThrowableError in Database.php line 62:
Class 'Predis\Client' not found

Also tested calling redis within route as per SO answer mentioned above : 

$redis = Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redis::connection();

...but get same error

If I try to access LRedis class from within a controller like this:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redis;

class MyController extends Controller
{
    public function redistest(){
        $redis = LRedis::connection();
        $redis->set('name', 'Bob Cool');
        return $redis->get('name');
    }
}

I get the following error:

FatalThrowableError in Preferences.php line 15:
Class 'App\Http\Controllers\LRedis' not found

Notes
Tested Predis and got it working fine by only adding the official predis library as specified in the docs.

I can get PhpRedis to work fine on my system (with the same route & controller examples) if I use an additional library like this one by following this Laracast ...however this question is specifically:

"How to set up PhpRedis in Laravel 5+ without additional composer libraries?"

Upvotes: 11

Views: 4561

Answers (2)

Abhijeet Umbarkar
Abhijeet Umbarkar

Reputation: 51

FatalThrowableError in Preferences.php line 15:
Class 'App\Http\Controllers\LRedis' not found

You have not include namespace for LRedis class

<?php
use LRedis

Upvotes: 1

Daron Spence
Daron Spence

Reputation: 1593

You need to PHP Redis binary.

https://github.com/phpredis/phpredis/blob/develop/INSTALL.markdown

pecl install redis

Upvotes: 0

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