This extension provides the redis key-value store support for the Yii framework 2.0. It includes a Cache and Session storage handler and implements the ActiveRecord pattern that allows you to store active records in redis.

For license information check the LICENSE-file.

At least redis version 2.6.12 is required for all components to work properly.

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

php composer.phar require --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-redis 

or add

"yiisoft/yii2-redis": "~2.0.0"

to the require section of your composer.json.

To use this extension, you have to configure the Connection class in your application configuration:

return [ //.... 'components' => [ 'redis' => [ 'class' => 'yii\redis\Connection', 'hostname' => 'localhost', 'port' => 6379, 'database' => 0, ], ] ];