Getting Started With RedisSessionHandlerBundle
Prerequisites
- Symfony 2.1 or newer
- PHP 5.4 or newer
- PHP PhpRedis extension
Installation
Installation is a quick 3 steps process:, (*1)
- Install RedisSessionHandlerBundle
- Enable the bundle
- Update your config
Step 1: Install RedisSessionHandlerBundle
The preferred way to install this bundle is to rely on Composer.
Just check on Packagist the version you want to install (in the following example, we used "dev-master") and add it to your composer.json
:, (*2)
``` js
{
"require": {
// ...
"tyrola/redis-session-handler-bundle": "1.1"
}
}, (*3)
### Step 2: Enable the bundle
Open up the AppKernel.php file and add the bundle to the kernel:
``` php
<?php
// app/AppKernel.php
public function registerBundles()
{
$bundles = array(
// ...
new BirknerAlex\RedisSessionHandlerBundle\RedisSessionHandlerBundle(),
);
}
Step 3: Update your config
Open the app/config/config.yml File and add these following lines:, (*4)
# app/config/config.yml
framework:
session:
handler_id: redis.session.handler
redis_session_handler:
class: BirknerAlex\RedisSessionHandlerBundle\Session\Storage\Handler\RedisSessionHandler
host: "127.0.0.1" # Your redis hostname
port: 6379 # Your redis port
database: 0 # Your redis database id (Default is 0)
db_options: ~
You're done!, (*5)
Optional: More configuration
# app/config/config.yml
redis_session_handler:
password: "MySecretPassword" # Provide a password if requirepass is enabled
db_options:
expiretime: 1800 # Session lifetime in seconds
prefix: "session_" # Custom prefix for sessions