September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
1091 pages
21h 41m
English
According to the Memcached official website, it's a free, open source, high performance, and distributed memory object caching system. Memcached is an in-memory key-value store that can store datasets from a database or API calls.
Similarly to Redis, Memcached also helps a lot in speeding up a website. It stores the data (strings or objects) in the memory. This allows us to reduce the communication with outside resources, such as databases and or APIs.
We are assuming that Memcached is installed on the server. Also, the PHP extension for PHP 7 is also assumed to be installed.
Now, let's play a little with Memcachd in PHP. Take a look at the following code:
//Instantiate Memcached Object $memCached = new Memcached(); ...
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