Overview

This is a sample repo for the Introduction to Laravel caching blog post. It has two branches:

• starter — What you should work off of if you're going through the tutorial from scratch
• main — The final version of the app with caching

Check out the PlanetScale blog for the full tutorial.

Run the application

1. Create a database on PlanetScale. Refer to the tutorial for full instructions.
2. Clone this repo:

git clone -b starter https://github.com/hollylawly/laravel-caching

Leave off the -b starter if you just want the final version.

3. Install the dependencies:

composer install

4. Copy the .env.example file to .env:

mv .env.example .env

5. Update the database connection with the credentials from the PlanetScale dashboard:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=<ACCESS HOST URL> 
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=<DATABASE_NAME> 
DB_USERNAME=<USERNAME>
DB_PASSWORD=<PASSWORD>
MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CA=/etc/ssl/cert.pem

6. Run the migrations and seeder:

php artisan migrate
php artisan db:seed

7. Start your application:

php artisan serve

8. You can now view your non-cached data from the PlanetScale database in the browser at http://localhost:8000/api/quotes.