Question

I am testing out some memcache code here in PHP:

1:

$testInstance = new Memcache;
$var = @$testInstance->connect('localhost', 11211);
echo $var;
// Outputs true no matter if the memcached is running or not.

2:

$testInstance = new Memcache;
$var = @$testInstance->connect('blablabla', 11211);
echo $var;
// Outputs false

Why on earth is this occuring?
I am running WinXP in my development environment and I cant see how the localhost version always returns true no matter if the memcached is running or not.

Thanks!

Answer 1

The issue went away when i switched to run memcached (not memcache) on a Ubuntu server instead. Really strange…