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Momento Laravel Example

In this repo, you will see an example of how to integrate a Momento cache into your Laravel app, instead of a Redis or Memcached. What's the benefits, you ask? You don't have to worry about Redis/Memcached nodes! Intrigued? Keep on reading!

Run the app via Docker

Before building a Docker image, create .env file in docker directory with the following env variables:

• MOMENTO_API_KEY=<YOUR_API_KEY>
• MOMENTO_CACHE_NAME=<YOUR_CACHE_NAME>
• WEATHER_API_KEY this is for weather API. Check out OpenWeather to get an API key.

If you don't have a Momento API key, you can generate one using the Momento Console.

Build a Docker image for the app:

cd docker
docker build --tag laravel-example .

Note: Building the laravel-example image involves compiling the PHP gRPC extension, which will take several minutes to complete.

If you run into the API limits from GitHub, add a GitHub personal access token to your composer configuration:

export COMPOSER_AUTH=<YOUR_GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN>
docker build --tag laravel-example --build-arg COMPOSER_AUTH=$COMPOSER_AUTH .

And run a Docker container with the image:

docker run -d --env-file .env -p 8000:8000 laravel-example

Manual PHP Setup

You will need to install the following:

• PHP
• Composer
• Laravel
• gRPC for PHP

Add the repository and dependency to your project's composer.json:

{
  "require": {
    "momentohq/laravel-example": "0.2.3"
  }
}

Add the Momento configuration to the 'stores' section of config/cache.php, adjusting the cache_name and default_ttl parameters as needed:

'stores' => [
        ...
        'momento' => [
            'driver' => 'momento',
            'cache_name' => 'my-momento-cache',
            'default_ttl' => 60,
        ],
],

Update the cache driver entry in your .env file:

CACHE_DRIVER=momento

And add the following environment variables into your .env file:

• WEATHER_API_KEY this is for weather API. Check out OpenWeather to get an API key.
• MOMENTO_API_KEY

If you don't have a Momento API key, you can generate one using the Momento Console.

Run composer update to install the necessary prerequisites.

To run this application:

php artisan serve

cURL commands

curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/weather/<your-favorite-city>

Example:
curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/weather/denver

or

curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/weather/<your-favorite-zipcode>/<country-code-such-as-us>

Example:
curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/weather/98101/us

or

curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/weather/id/<your-favorite-city-id>

City id can be found here: http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/

Example:
curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/weather/id/833

Exploring the Momento Cache Integration

Examples of different ways to use Momento's Laravel cache client and cache driver can be found in the WeatherController.php.

For examples of using the Momento client directly, check out our PHP SDK examples!

A simple example usage of Momento's Laravel cache driver is extracted below:

$apiKey = env("WEATHER_API_KEY");
$url = "https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q={$city}&appid={$apiKey}";
$result = Cache::get($city);
if (!is_null($result)) {
    return $result;
} else {
    $res = $this->httpClient->get($url);
    if ($res->getStatusCode() == 200) {
        $json = $res->getBody();
        // 10 minutes TTLc
        Cache::put($city, $json, 600);
        return $json;
    }
}