Using Redis to save sessions

Redis is a popular key/value data store and is quite fast. Laravel includes Redis support, and makes it easy to interact with the Redis data.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we'll need to have a Redis server properly configured and running. More information on that can be found at http://redis.io/.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to complete this recipe:

1. In our routes.php file, create the routes as given in the following code:

   Route::get('redis-login', function()
   {
     return View::make('redis-login');
   });
   
   Route::post('redis-login', function()
   {
     $redis = Redis::connection();
     $redis->hset('user', 'name', Input::get('name'));
     $redis->hset('user', 'email', Input::get('email'));
     return Redirect::to('redis-view');
   });
   
   Route::get('redis-view', function()
   {
     $redis = Redis::connection();
     $name = $redis->hget('user', 'name');
     $email = $redis->hget('user', 'email');
     echo 'Hello ' . $name . '. Your email is ' . $email;
   });

2. In the views directory,...