I have a big problem with writing things down. This inevitably leads me to spending excessive amount of time looking all over the internet for how to solve a problem. Most recently I was trying to remember the steps to get Memcached going on my Debian server and on my laptop.
Luckily I came across this comment on php.net, which explains nicely how to get this going on Debian/Linux. The only thing I needed to do was make sure g++ was installed (i.e. apt-get install g++). Here are the steps:
Code:
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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);
?>
In Windows (assuming you have XAMPP installed) go into your php.ini (check phpinfo for location) file and un-comment the following:
Code:
...
extension=php_memcache.dll
...
[Memcache]
memcache.allow_failover = 1
memcache.max_failover_attempts=20
memcache.chunk_size =8192
memcache.default_port = 11211
...
Then head to Jellycan Code and download the Windows memcached port (binary). At this point you should be able to launch the .exe and run the sample code above.
