laravel-symfony-cache

Use the Symfony Cache Component with Laravel's cache system. Heavily inspired by the alternative-laravel-cache project.

Caution

Symfony's Cache component behaves differently than Laravel's.

Read the Tag Behavior and Clear Behavior sections before replacing the default Laravel cache stores with this library, and consider how a different tag behavior could affect any other libraries that you use.

Requirements

• Laravel 10.x or greater
• Symfony Cache 7.2 or greater

Installation

composer require trevorpe/laravel-symfony-cache

Usage

This library introduces a new cache driver registered with Laravel's CacheManager.

You can use a Symfony cache adapter by specifying symfony as your cache driver alongside an adapter property, with the fully-qualified class name of the Symfony cache adapter you'd like to use.

Configuration Examples

Array

// config/cache.php

return [
    'stores' => [
        'file' => [
            'driver' => 'symfony',
            'adapter' => Symfony\Component\Cache\Adapter\ArrayAdapter::class,
        ],
    ]
]

Filesystem

// config/cache.php

return [
    'stores' => [
        'file' => [
            'driver' => 'symfony',
            'adapter' => Symfony\Component\Cache\Adapter\FilesystemAdapter::class,
            'path' => storage_path('framework/cache/data')
        ],
    ]
]

Filesystem (Tagged)

// config/cache.php

return [
    'stores' => [
        'file' => [
            'driver' => 'symfony',
            'adapter' => Symfony\Component\Cache\Adapter\FilesystemTagAwareAdapter::class,
            'path' => storage_path('framework/cache/data')
        ],
    ]
]

Redis

// config/cache.php

return [
    'stores' => [
        'redis' => [
            'driver' => 'symfony',
            'adapter' => Symfony\Component\Cache\Adapter\RedisAdapter::class,
            'connection' => env('REDIS_CACHE_CONNECTION', 'cache')
        ],
    ]
]

Redis (Tagged)

// config/cache.php

return [
    'stores' => [
        'redis' => [
            'driver' => 'symfony',
            'adapter' => Symfony\Component\Cache\Adapter\RedisTagAwareAdapter::class,
            'connection' => env('REDIS_CACHE_CONNECTION', 'cache')
        ],
    ]
]

Tag Behavior

Similar to alternative-laravel-cache, this library brings an alternate tag behavior than Laravel's default cache.

Symfony's cache system does not treat tags as hierarchical like Laravel's cache system does. Instead, tagging a cache entry with one or more tags allows you to invalidate a group of entries all at once by referencing its tag. In addition, each tag is applied individually, rather than as an ordered list. (E.g. applying two tags and calling flush() with either of those tags will invalidate the entry.)

This means that tagging is only really useful when writing or removing data. Reading tagged data will function identically to getting a cache entry by its key without tags.

Examples

Cache::set('test-key1', 'test-value1'); // Set the item without tags

Cache::get('test-key1'); // Gets the cache item normally
Cache::tags('tag1')->get('test-key1'); // Gets the cache item normally (unaffected by tags)

Cache::tags('tag1')->flush(); // Flushes nothing, as no values are tagged.
Cache::get('test-key1'); // Value is still present

Cache::flush(); // Flushes all cache entries normally
Cache::get('test-key1'); // Value has been removed

// --------------

Cache::tags('tag2')->set('test-key2', 'test-value2'); // Sets the item with a tag

Cache::get('test-key2'); // Gets the cache item normally
Cache::tags('tag2')->get('test-key2'); // Gets the cache item normally (unaffected by tags)

Cache::tags('tag2')->flush(); // Flushes only entries tagged with 'tag2'
Cache::flush(); // Flushes all cache entries normally

Cache::get('test-key2'); // Value will have been removed by either of the above flush() calls

// --------------

Cache::tags('tag3', 'tag4')->set('test-key3', 'test-value3'); // Sets the item with a tag

Cache::get('test-key3'); // Gets the cache item normally
Cache::tags('tag3')->get('test-key3'); // Unaffected. Gets the cache item normally

Cache::tags('tag3')->flush(); // Flushes only entries tagged with 'tag3'
Cache::tags('tag4')->flush(); // Flushes only entries tagged with 'tag4'
Cache::tags('tag3', 'tag4')->flush(); // Flushes only entries tagged with 'tag3' _or_ 'tag4'
Cache::flush(); // Flushes all cache entries normally

Cache::get('test-key3'); // Value will have been removed by any of the above flush() calls

Clear Behavior

The clear() method of Laravel will clear the entire cache when using Redis as the driver (and possibly others).

With Symfony's cache system, clear() will only clear keys matching the prefix and namespace. This is a bit less dangerous, but one should be still be cautious when clearing a cache store to ensure you are only deleting the intended values.