Php and Redis
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Getting StartedIn order to use Redis with PHP you will need a PHP Redis client. In the following sections, we will demonstrate the use of PhpRedis, a flexible and feature-complete Redis client library for PHP. Additional PHP clients for Redis can be found under the PHP section of the Redis Clients page.
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Step 1. Run a Redis serverYou can either run Redis server in a Docker container or directly on your machine. Follow the below command to setup a Redis server locally on Mac OS:
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Ensure that you are able to use the following Redis command to connect to the Redis instance.
Now you should be able to perform CRUD operations with Redis keys. The above Redis client command might require password if you have setup authentication in your Redis configuration file. If a Redis password is not set, then it will perform the default connection to Redis server. You can play around inserting data to Redis using SET
and then fetching it back with the GET
command.
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Step 2. Get pecl#
Step 3. Install PhpRedis#
Step 4. Opening a Connection to Redis Using PhpRredisThe following code creates a connection to Redis using Phpredis
Replace the following values with those of your database and save this file as connect.php
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Step 5. Executing the scriptIt should display "PONG" as output. You can verify this by running the monitor command