Redis Cache Plugin for PostActiv

About

WARNING: THIS IS ALPHA CODE, IT IS PRERELEASE AND SHOULD ONLY BE INSTALLED TO HELP TEST OR YOU ARE WILLING TO TAKE RISKS.

Caches database objects in Redis. Functions almost identically to the Memcached plugin for GNU Social except that it uses Redis. The code is derived from that plugin.

It might work with GNU Social also. Try it and tell me.

Install

Install phpredis package either through your distribution package manager or PECL or compile it.

• Move the project directory to ${POSTACTIV}/plugins
• Add to your config.php: addPlugin('RedisCache');

By default it will use localhost and the standard Redis port to connect. You can also pass a named parameter array to the plugin with "host" and "port" values to explicitly set this, or only set "host" to a named pipe.

Example: addPlugin('RedisCache', array('host' => '10.0.0.1', port => 1679));

It namespaces its keys using the site shortname, so it should properly separate caches in a multisite configuration unless you did something stupid like set multiple sites with the same shortname.

Usage

You don't have to do anything, it will just start caching stuff that goes through the managed dboject system and hopefully make your site faster.

License

GNU Affero License

Thanks

Evan Prodromou and Craig Andrews, authors of the original Memcached plugin.