Install memcache on CENTOS6

This guide will explain how to install memcache.

To install the server:

yum search memcached
yum install memcached php-pear
chkconfig memcached on
service memcached start

To install php,pecl,memcache extension:

pecl search memcache

The latest stable version is memcache 2.2.7.

You need to install dependencies before installing memcache:

yum install php-devel gcc zlib zlib-devel

To install php extension:

pecl install memcache

Insert the extension in php.ini:

vi /etc/php.ini

Insert below line to php.ini:

extension=memcache.so

To create php test script:

vi /var/www/html/memcache.php

<?php

$memcache = new Memcache;
$memcache->;connect('127.0.0.1', 11211) or die ("Cannot connect");

$version = $memcache->getVersion();
echo "Version: ".$version."
\n";

$tmp_object = new stdClass;
$tmp_object->test1 = 'value1';
$tmp_object->test2 = 472;

$memcache->set('key', $tmp_object, false, 20) or die ("Cannot save data");
echo "Stored data in the memcache for 20 seconds
\n";

$get_result = $memcache->get('key');
echo "Data from the cache:
\n";

var_dump($get_result);
?>