Redis Cache Adapter

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This article explains how to configure the Redis adapter when using the Cache as an independent component in any PHP application. Read the Symfony Cache configuration article if you are using it in a Symfony application.

This adapter stores the values in-memory using one (or more) Redis server instances.

Unlike the APCu adapter, and similarly to the Memcached adapter, it is not limited to the current server's shared memory; you can store contents independent of your PHP environment. The ability to utilize a cluster of servers to provide redundancy and/or fail-over is also available.

Caution

Requirements: At least one Redis server must be installed and running to use this adapter. Additionally, this adapter requires a compatible extension or library that implements \Redis, \RedisArray, RedisCluster, \Relay\Relay or \Predis.

This adapter expects a Redis, RedisArray, RedisCluster, Relay or Predis instance to be passed as the first parameter. A namespace and default cache lifetime can optionally be passed as the second and third parameters:

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use Symfony\Component\Cache\Adapter\RedisAdapter;

$cache = new RedisAdapter(

    // the object that stores a valid connection to your Redis system
    \Redis $redisConnection,

    // the string prefixed to the keys of the items stored in this cache
    $namespace = '',

    // the default lifetime (in seconds) for cache items that do not define their
    // own lifetime, with a value 0 causing items to be stored indefinitely (i.e.
    // until RedisAdapter::clear() is invoked or the server(s) are purged)
    $defaultLifetime = 0
);

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Support for Relay was introduced in Symfony 6.3.

Configure the Connection

The createConnection() helper method allows creating and configuring the Redis client class instance using a Data Source Name (DSN):

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use Symfony\Component\Cache\Adapter\RedisAdapter;

// pass a single DSN string to register a single server with the client
$client = RedisAdapter::createConnection(
    'redis://localhost'
);

The DSN can specify either an IP/host (and an optional port) or a socket path, as well as a password and a database index. To enable TLS for connections, the scheme redis must be replaced by rediss (the second s means "secure").

Note

A Data Source Name (DSN) for this adapter must use either one of the following formats.

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redis[s]://[pass@][ip|host|socket[:port]][/db-index]
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redis[s]:[[user]:pass@]?[ip|host|socket[:port]][&params]

Values for placeholders [user], [:port], [/db-index] and [&params] are optional.

Below are common examples of valid DSNs showing a combination of available values:

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use Symfony\Component\Cache\Adapter\RedisAdapter;

// host "my.server.com" and port "6379"
RedisAdapter::createConnection('redis://my.server.com:6379');

// host "my.server.com" and port "6379" and database index "20"
RedisAdapter::createConnection('redis://my.server.com:6379/20');

// host "localhost", auth "abcdef" and timeout 5 seconds
RedisAdapter::createConnection('redis://abcdef@localhost?timeout=5');

// socket "/var/run/redis.sock" and auth "bad-pass"
RedisAdapter::createConnection('redis://bad-pass@/var/run/redis.sock');

// host "redis1" (docker container) with alternate DSN syntax and selecting database index "3"
RedisAdapter::createConnection('redis:?host[redis1:6379]&dbindex=3');

// providing credentials with alternate DSN syntax
RedisAdapter::createConnection('redis:default:verysecurepassword@?host[redis1:6379]&dbindex=3');

// a single DSN can also define multiple servers
RedisAdapter::createConnection(
    'redis:?host[localhost]&host[localhost:6379]&host[/var/run/redis.sock:]&auth=my-password&redis_cluster=1'
);

Redis Sentinel, which provides high availability for Redis, is also supported when using the PHP Redis Extension v5.2+ or the Predis library. Use the redis_sentinel parameter to set the name of your service group:

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RedisAdapter::createConnection(
    'redis:?host[redis1:26379]&host[redis2:26379]&host[redis3:26379]&redis_sentinel=mymaster'
);

// providing credentials
RedisAdapter::createConnection(
    'redis:default:verysecurepassword@?host[redis1:26379]&host[redis2:26379]&host[redis3:26379]&redis_sentinel=mymaster'
);

// providing credentials and selecting database index "3"
RedisAdapter::createConnection(
    'redis:default:verysecurepassword@?host[redis1:26379]&host[redis2:26379]&host[redis3:26379]&redis_sentinel=mymaster&dbindex=3'
);

Note

See the RedisTrait for more options you can pass as DSN parameters.

Configure the Options

The createConnection() helper method also accepts an array of options as its second argument. The expected format is an associative array of key => value pairs representing option names and their respective values:

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use Symfony\Component\Cache\Adapter\RedisAdapter;

$client = RedisAdapter::createConnection(

    // provide a string dsn
    'redis://localhost:6379',

    // associative array of configuration options
    [
        'class' => null,
        'persistent' => 0,
        'persistent_id' => null,
        'timeout' => 30,
        'read_timeout' => 0,
        'retry_interval' => 0,
        'tcp_keepalive' => 0,
        'lazy' => null,
        'redis_cluster' => false,
        'redis_sentinel' => null,
        'dbindex' => 0,
        'failover' => 'none',
        'ssl' => null,
    ]

);

Available Options

6.3

\Relay\Relay support was introduced in Symfony 6.3.

class (type: string, default: null)
Specifies the connection library to return, either \Redis, \Relay\Relay or \Predis\Client. If none is specified, fallback value is in following order, depending which one is available first: \Redis, \Relay\Relay, \Predis\Client. Explicitly set this to \Predis\Client for Sentinel if you are running into issues when retrieving master information.
persistent (type: int, default: 0)
Enables or disables use of persistent connections. A value of 0 disables persistent connections, and a value of 1 enables them.
persistent_id (type: string|null, default: null)
Specifies the persistent id string to use for a persistent connection.
timeout (type: int, default: 30)
Specifies the time (in seconds) used to connect to a Redis server before the connection attempt times out.
read_timeout (type: int, default: 0)
Specifies the time (in seconds) used when performing read operations on the underlying network resource before the operation times out.
retry_interval (type: int, default: 0)
Specifies the delay (in milliseconds) between reconnection attempts in case the client loses connection with the server.
tcp_keepalive (type: int, default: 0)
Specifies the TCP-keepalive timeout (in seconds) of the connection. This requires phpredis v4 or higher and a TCP-keepalive enabled server.
lazy (type: bool, default: null)
Enables or disables lazy connections to the backend. It's false by default when using this as a stand-alone component and true by default when using it inside a Symfony application.
redis_cluster (type: bool, default: false)
Enables or disables redis cluster. The actual value passed is irrelevant as long as it passes loose comparison checks: redis_cluster=1 will suffice.
redis_sentinel (type: string, default: null)
Specifies the master name connected to the sentinels.
dbindex (type: int, default: 0)
Specifies the database index to select.
failover (type: string, default: none)
Specifies failover for cluster implementations. For \RedisCluster valid options are none (default), error, distribute or slaves. For \Predis\ClientInterface valid options are slaves or distribute.
ssl (type: array, default: null)
SSL context options. See php.net/context.ssl for more information.

Note

When using the Predis library some additional Predis-specific options are available. Reference the Predis Connection Parameters documentation for more information.

Configuring Redis

When using Redis as cache, you should configure the maxmemory and maxmemory-policy settings. By setting maxmemory, you limit how much memory Redis is allowed to consume. If the amount is too low, Redis will drop entries that would still be useful and you benefit less from your cache. Setting the maxmemory-policy to allkeys-lru tells Redis that it is ok to drop data when it runs out of memory, and to first drop the oldest entries (least recently used). If you do not allow Redis to drop entries, it will return an error when you try to add data when no memory is available. An example setting could look as follows:

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maxmemory 100mb
maxmemory-policy allkeys-lru

Working with Tags

In order to use tag-based invalidation, you can wrap your adapter in TagAwareAdapter. However, when Redis is used as backend, it's often more interesting to use the dedicated RedisTagAwareAdapter. Since tag invalidation logic is implemented in Redis itself, this adapter offers better performance when using tag-based invalidation:

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use Symfony\Component\Cache\Adapter\RedisAdapter;
use Symfony\Component\Cache\Adapter\RedisTagAwareAdapter;

$client = RedisAdapter::createConnection('redis://localhost');
$cache = new RedisTagAwareAdapter($client);

Note

When using RedisTagAwareAdapter, in order to maintain relationships between tags and cache items, you have to use either noeviction or volatile-* in the Redis maxmemory-policy eviction policy.

Read more about this topic in the official Redis LRU Cache Documentation.

This work, including the code samples, is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.
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