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Rawelja
Rawelja

Reputation: 107

Difference between Cache and Redis facade in laravel?

I want to implement Cache system but i found tutorials where they use Cache facade but when i open Redis documentation they use Redis facade, is there difference or that is same thing?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1694

Answers (1)

Wader
Wader

Reputation: 9868

The Cache facade lets you access the cache, so you can add/get/forget cache items. If you use redis as your cache driver this will use your redis instance as the cache store.

The Redis facade lets you access a redis connection, not the cache, although these may actually be the same redis instance depending on your config. This lets you access the pub/sub features of redis and interact with the redis instance using redis commands https://redis.io/commands

To get a better look at what the facades can do you can look at the classes they resolve to. The Cache facade resolves to Illuminate\Contracts\Cache\Repository and the Redis facade to Illuminate\Redis\Connections\Connection.

More info on what classes the facades resolve to at https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/facades#facade-class-reference

Upvotes: 2

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