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Using Memcache vs Memcached with PHP

I’m using AWS Elasticache and I’ve installed there php module which I believe is an extension of spymemcached. The catch is I believe I’m running memcache and not memcached. This is the code to create the object:

$memcached = new Memcached();
$memcached->setOption(Memcached::OPT_CLIENT_MODE, Memcached::DYNAMIC_CLIENT_MODE);
$memcached->addServer('goneglobalcache-1a.expalp.cfg.apse1.cache.amazonaws.com', 11211);
$memcached->set('key', 'value', 60);

When I go to write to the cache I can’t use compression settings and was advised the problem is I’m using a memcache client.

Is there a way to tell which type of client I’m using and a way to switch?

Answer 1

If you want to use Memcache, you need to install (compile) that PHP extension.

$memcache = new Memcache;
$memcache->set('key', 'value', MEMCACHE::COMPRESSED, 60);

But note that Memcache compression uses zlib which need to be installed.