atyagi/elasticache-laravel

Elasticache Drivers for Laravel Cache and Session

Elasticache Laravel

, _(*1)

AWS Elasticache Session and Cache Drivers for Laravel (Memcached specifically), _(*2)

Setup

This package requires the memcached extension for PHP. Please see this link for installation instructions., _(*3)

With composer, simply add "atyagi/elasticache-laravel": "~2.1" to your composer.json. (or "atyagi/elasticache-laravel": "~1.1" for Laravel 4 installations), _(*4)

Once composer update is ran, add, _(*5)

'Atyagi\Elasticache\ElasticacheServiceProvider',, _(*6)

to the providers array in app/config.php., _(*7)

At this point, inside of app/session.php and app/cache.php, you can use elasticache as a valid driver., _(*8)

Versions

• 2.* represents all versions for Laravel 5
• 1.* represents all versions for Laravel 4

Configuration

All configuration lives within app/session.php and app/cache.php. The key ones are below:, _(*9)

session.php

• lifetime -- the session lifetime within the Memcached environment
• cookie -- this is the prefix for the session ID to prevent clashing

cache.php

Note: for Laravel 5, make sure to add this info to the stores array as follows:, _(*10)

'stores' => [
  ...
  'memcached' => [
    'driver' => 'memcached',
    'servers' => [
      [
        'host' => '<YOUR HOST>',
        'port' => '<YOUR_PORT>',
        'weight' => '<YOUR_WEIGHT>'
        ]
      ]
    ]
    ...
  ]