10 baby steps to install Memcached Server and access it with PHP

Thinking of implementing caching for your php application , you are at a right place. Just in 10 simple (copy and paste) steps you can install and access Memcached Server.

Step1: Install libevent ,libmemcached and libmemcached devel (dependency)

yum install libevent

yum install libmemcached libmemcached-devel

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Step 2: Install Memcached Server1 yum install memcached

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Step 3: Start Memcached server1 memcached -d -m 512 -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11211 -u nobody

(d = daemon, m = memory, u = user, l = IP to listen to, p = port)

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Step 4: Check your memcached server is running successfully1 ps -eaf | grep memcached

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Step 5: Connect Memcached server via telnet1 telnet 127.0.0.1 11211

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Step 6: Check current status of Memcached Server on telnet prompt1 stats

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Step 7: Exit telnet1 quit

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Step 8: Install PHP client to access Memcached Server1 pecl install memcache

It will make “memcache.so”, you have to just put it on your /etc/php.ini file.

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Step 9: Restart your apache server1 service httpd restart

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Step 10: Open your favorite editor to type below code and execute it, it will cache your data into Memcached server and access it back for you

$memcache = new Memcache;

$memcache->connect('127.0.0.1', 11211) or die ("Could not connect"); //connect to memcached server

$mydata = "i want to cache this line"; //your cacheble data

$memcache->set('key', $mydata, false, 100); //add it to memcached server

$get_result = $memcache->get('key'); //retrieve your data

var_dump($get_result); //show it

?>

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Hurray!! All done!

Enjoy Caching with Memcached.

Cheers!