README

PSR-6 and PSR-16 cache implementation using APCu. APCu is an in-memory key-value store for PHP. Keys are of type string and values can be any PHP variables.

Why APCu Cache?

Network

APCu is non-distributed cache which you can use only in HTTP request (it doesn't work in PHP CLI). If you have a web application that doesn't run on different web servers it's better to use APCu cache, because it's the simplest cache without requests over the network.

Speed

APCu is faster than Memcached and Redis. Benchmark results of setting and getting of 10000 string values (Intel Core i5-8250U, DDR4 2400MHz):

APCu
set 0.01187s
get 0.00633s

Memcached
set 0.66142s
get 0.63786s

Redis
set 0.37687s
get 0.39227s

So, if your web application makes a lot of requests to the cache, it's better to have a warmed APCu cache on each worker.

Install

composer require libertyphp/apcu-cache

Docker configuration

If you use php-fpm docker add this code to install APCu in PHP:

ARG APCU_VERSION=5.1.21

RUN pecl install apcu-${APCU_VERSION} && docker-php-ext-enable apcu
RUN echo "apc.shm_size=1024M" >> /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini
RUN echo "apc.ttl=0" >> /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini
RUN echo "apc.gc_ttl=0" >> /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini

Using PSR-6 implementation

$cachePool = new ApcuCacheItemPool();
$cacheItem = (new ApcuCacheItem('u1030_rating', 98))
    ->expiresAfter(3600);

$cachePool->save($cacheItem);

Using PSR-16 implementation

$cache = new ApcuCache();
$cache->set('u1030_rating', 98, 3600);

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2022 Vladimir Lila. See LICENSE for details.