Requirements
Installing PHP5 Memcache Extension Module on Ubuntu (note: you must have memcached installed prior to installing this extension module. refer to prerequisite install below):
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# Prerequisite Install
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# Download & install libevent (memcached dependency)
wget http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.8-stable.tar.gz
tar xfz libevent-1.4.8-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-1.4.8-stable
./configure && make && sudo make install
# Create a symlink to libevent
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libevent-1.4.so.2 /usr/lib
# Download & install memcached
wget http://danga.com/memcached/dist/memcached-1.2.6.tar.gz
tar xfz memcached-1.2.6.tar.gz
cd memcached-1.2.6
./configure && make && sudo make install
# Run memcached as a daemon (d = daemon, m = memory, u = user, l = IP to listen to, p = port)
memcached -d -m 1024 -u root -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11211
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# PHP5-Memcache Install
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# Download the extension module
apt-get install php5-memcache
# Edit /etc/php5/conf.d/memcache.ini and uncomment the following line by removing the semi-colon
extension=memcache.so
# Restart apache
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
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# Test Install
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# Create a file 'memcache_test.php' in your webroot and paste the following:
<?php
$memcache = new Memcache;
$memcache->connect('localhost', 11211) or die ("Could not connect");
$version = $memcache->getVersion();
echo "Server's version: ".$version."<br/>\n";
$tmp_object = new stdClass;
$tmp_object->str_attr = 'test';
$tmp_object->int_attr = 123;
$memcache->set('key', $tmp_object, false, 10) or die ("Failed to save data at the server");
echo "Store data in the cache (data will expire in 10 seconds)<br/>\n";
$get_result = $memcache->get('key');
echo "Data from the cache:<br/>\n";
var_dump($get_result);
?>
# Test to see if the file renders in your browser
Cheers!
Installation
This » PECL extension is not bundled with PHP. Information for installing this PECL extension may be found in the manual chapter titled Installation of PECL extensions. Additional information such as new releases, downloads, source files, maintainer information, and a CHANGELOG, can be located here: » http://pecl.php.net/package/memcache.
Note: It's possible to disable memcache session handler support. The 'pecl install' option prompts for this (default is enabled) however when compiling statically into PHP the --disable-memcache-session configure option may be used.
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User Contributed NotesInstallation
djfobbz at gmail dot com
17-Sep-2008 04:11
17-Sep-2008 04:11
colnector on colnect.com
28-Aug-2008 03:59
28-Aug-2008 03:59
Forgot that small note: you might want to download memcached for Windows at http://jehiah.cz/projects/memcached-win32/ and install it either after or before installing the extention.
colnector on colnect.com
28-Aug-2008 03:44
28-Aug-2008 03:44
Windows installation is a bit more tricky since "pecl install memcache" does NOT work properly.
Here's how I installed it:
1/ Download pecl-5.2-dev.zip (choose the version relevant to your PHP) from http://snaps.php.net/
2/ Copy php_memcache.dll from the archive you've downloaded to your PHP extention folder.
3/ Add the following line to php.ini (in the exntentions section):
extension=php_memcache.dll
4/ Restart your server
5/ Check with phpinfo() that you now have a memcache section
Good luck :)
mykel dot alvis at gmail dot com
18-Jun-2008 03:01
18-Jun-2008 03:01
on Fedora, apparently
yum install php-pecl-memcache
akeem dot philbert at rokkan dot com
14-May-2008 01:30
14-May-2008 01:30
for ubuntu it is actually:
apt-get install php5-memcache
Anonymous
03-May-2008 10:20
03-May-2008 10:20
ubuntu:
apt-get install php5-memcached
the conf file is then in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/memcache.ini
remember to restart the webserver
Wayne
01-May-2008 07:09
01-May-2008 07:09
Newer PHP versions don't have a --enable-memcache options; simply installing the PECL package will be enough... so to be absolutely clear, you WON'T have to recompile PHP to use memcache. That paragraph above seems like a bad case of earlier version documentation editing.