PHP memcache

What is Memcached?(http://memcached.org/)

Free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.
Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering.
Memcached is simple yet powerful. Its simple design promotes quick deployment, ease of development, and solves many problems facing large data caches. Its API is available for most popular languages.


Memcache module provides handy procedural and object oriented interface to memcached, highly effective caching daemon, which was especially designed to decrease database load in dynamic web applications.

sudo apt-get install php5-memcache

Example:


$memcache = new Memcache;$memcache->connect('localhost', 11211) or die ("Could not connect");
$version = $memcache->getVersion();
echo "Server's version: ".$version."
\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)
\n";
$get_result = $memcache->get('key');
echo "Data from the cache:
\n";
var_dump($get_result);
?>

Memcache Functions

Table of Contents

• Memcache::add — Add an item to the server
• Memcache::addServer — Add a memcached server to connection pool
• Memcache::close — Close memcached server connection
• Memcache::connect — Open memcached server connection
• memcache_debug — Turn debug output on/off
• Memcache::decrement — Decrement item's value
• Memcache::delete — Delete item from the server
• Memcache::flush — Flush all existing items at the server
• Memcache::get — Retrieve item from the server
• Memcache::getExtendedStats — Get statistics from all servers in pool
• Memcache::getServerStatus — Returns server status
• Memcache::getStats — Get statistics of the server
• Memcache::getVersion — Return version of the server
• Memcache::increment — Increment item's value
• Memcache::pconnect — Open memcached server persistent connection
• Memcache::replace — Replace value of the existing item
• Memcache::set — Store data at the server
• Memcache::setCompressThreshold — Enable automatic compression of large values
• Memcache::setServerParams — Changes server parameters and status at runtime