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Does the memcached (not memcache) extension exist for Windows? I have looked through old answers and haven't found anything.

Thom Wiggers
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qitch
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It does not exist and is very unlikely to exist any time soon. The main problem is not the extension itself but the libmemcached library. This library is barely portable to anything but a linux system, so windows support won't happen anytime soon (using Visual C).

Pierre
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You can get the php extension "memcache" to use memcached with php on windows here http://downloads.php.net/pierre/

Memcached is the server daemon and you can get it for windows here http://splinedancer.com/memcached-win32/

The php extension also called memcached requires libmemcached which doesn't seem well supported on windows which is probably why that extension doesn't exist for windows.

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    I thought I made it clear I am looking for memcached not memcache. – qitch Mar 13 '12 at 22:40
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    php_memcache.dll is the php extension to use memcached on windows. see my edit for more – Erik Kettenburg Mar 13 '12 at 22:44
  • @MarkBaker Yep, I noticed that and added it on my edit, the naming sure gets confusing there, since the memcached extension isn't a daemon itself, doesn't it? Thanks! – Erik Kettenburg Mar 13 '12 at 23:01
  • I guess your answer will be helpful to someone searching. And I suppose the answer to my question is "it doesn't exist." I need to append and memcache doesn't allow it. – qitch Mar 13 '12 at 23:03
  • I know your pain, I work primarily on windows, have you tried talking directly to memcached (the server) using a memcached cli wrapper (hacky I know) or read the value append and set it back (which has issues of course). If it's production those options shouldn't be used, but if it's development use they might help. Good luck! – Erik Kettenburg Mar 13 '12 at 23:09
  • Yeah, so what I did was grab the value and then do an array merge on it and the new array. Works for now and will be using linux as the production server so once everything is good I'll just need to change a few things. – qitch Mar 14 '12 at 00:13
  • is php_memcached.dll available now? – RajeshK Jun 20 '15 at 06:25