S3 cache driver for Laravel 5 and 6. Support: Amazon S3, Digital Ocean Spaces, etc.

The repository is originally forked from Illuminate\Cache\FileStore.

The advantages of using S3:

• S3 have an unlimited storage or big storage.
• You can cache everything without worried about running out of storage capacity.
• It's cheap!

Note: Redis, Memcached, and almost others laravel default cache store have a limited storage.

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How to install

Install using composer

composer require imannms/laravel-s3-cache-driver

For Laravel 5.5+

Nothing is needed, package auto-discovery will work.

For Laravel 5.2+

Add to config/app.php.

	/*
	 * Package Service Providers...
	 */
	Imannms\LaravelS3CacheDriver\S3CacheServiceProvider::class,

Add config

Add to config/cache.php with the config template bellow.

Please choose one.

Amazon S3 config template.

	
	'stores' => [
	
		// other stores
	
		's3' => [
			'driver' => 's3',
			'key' => env('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'),
			'secret' => env('AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'),
			'region' => env('AWS_DEFAULT_REGION'),
			'bucket' => env('AWS_BUCKET'),
			'url' => env('AWS_URL'),
			'path' => env('AWS_PATH', 'cache'), // cache root directory, you can change it to suit your need
		],
	]
	

Digital Ocean Spaces config template.

	
	'stores' => [
	
		// other stores
	
		'do_spaces' => [
			'driver' => 's3',
			'key' => env('DO_SPACES_KEY'),
			'secret' => env('DO_SPACES_SECRET'),
			'region' => env('DO_SPACES_REGION'),
			'bucket' => env('DO_SPACES_BUCKET'),
			'endpoint' => env('DO_SPACES_ENDPOINT'),
			'path' => env('DO_SPACES_PATH', 'cache'), // cache root directory, you can change it to suit your need
		],
	]
	

Finally

Run php artisan config:cache.

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How to use

use Cache;

Cache::store('s3')->put('key', 'value', 60*5);
Cache::store('s3')->get('key');

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Recommendation

Enable CDN on your cloud storage for faster speed.