Installation
- sudo apt-get install memcached
Command line
- $ telnet localhost 11211
add foo 0 0 11
hello world
STORED
get foo
VALUE foo 0 11
hello world
END
delete foo
DELETED
PHP extension
- sudo apt-get install php5-memcached
$m = new Memcached();
$m->addServer('localhost', 11211);
$m->set('int', 99);
$m->set('string', 'a simple string');
$m->set('array', array(11, 12));
/* expire 'object' key in 5 minutes */
$m->set('object', new stdclass, time() + 300);
var_dump($m->get('int'));
var_dump($m->get('string'));
var_dump($m->get('array'));
var_dump($m->get('object'));
?>
Example from: http://www.php.net/manual/en/memcached.set.php