Category: Redis

Redis in an open source , in-memory data structure used as a database, caching, and message queues. It stores data into RAM to reduce the number of times an external data source must be read. These things can be done in Memcached as well but advantage of Redis is that it support various data structures like strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets. Apart from that another most advantage is we can do Redis clustering as well like we do in other databases. Redis also can be used for transactions because Redis transaction is also atomic that means either all of the commands or none are processed.

Laravel Call to undefined method Redis::connection()

The Redis class is built-in to Laravel and connection() is there. It can't be missing.  You might have installed php-redis on your system. Redis can be another class into php-redis. So there may conflict between Laravel Redis alias and another Redis class.

Now there are two solutions for solving this problem.

  1. You just need to edit your app config, open app/config/app.php and replace this line:

And then you can get your Redis instance like this:

2. Remove php-redis

To remove the php-redis you need to run the below command:

Now restart your Redis server by following command:

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