I don't mean to bump an old thread, but has anyone joined redis with XF yet? Or tried ragtek's link above? Just curious if anyone has and if they were successful. Any insight one could provide would be great.
xF supports various cache backends. It would be nice if it supported Redis, which is in many regards superior to Memcached, in particular when it comes to dealing with sorted sets.
+1, I use Redis for caching with some other apps.. and with Zend Optimizer+ coming in PHP5.5 it would be nice to be able to ditch APC since all I'd use it for is variable caching.
There is official Redis support as of XF 2.0 beta 2, implemented through a simple configuration in your config file. It is fully "wired up" though of course there will always be enhancements above and beyond what we feel is sufficient as noted above.