Using commands directly
=======================

Redis has lots of useful commands which could be used directly from connection. After configuring application as
shown in [installation](installation.md), connection could be obtained like the following:

```php
$redis = Yii::$app->redis;
```

After it's done one can execute commands. The most generic way to do it is using `executeCommand` method:

```php
$result = $redis->executeCommand('hmset', ['test_collection', 'key1', 'val1', 'key2', 'val2']);
```

There are shortcuts available for each command supported so insted of the above it can be used as follows:

```php
$result = $redis->hmset('test_collection', 'key1', 'val1', 'key2', 'val2');
```

For a list of available commands and their parameters see <http://redis.io/commands>.