Thursday, 26 April 2007

Article: Learn to Install Memcache with XAMPP and PHP4

Irakli Nadareishvili tells you about XAMPP, a packaged, self-contained distribution of Apache, MySQL, PHP and other hard-to-install PHP extensions. According to him it solves 99.9 per cent of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) problems out-of-the-box and also allows PHP-vendors to create packaged distributions of complex systems.

However, he says, even with a long list of packaged extensions, there may be a need to install an additional one. PECL Memcache client of memcached distributed cache server, is a very probable candidate for high-load systems.

Unfortunately, PECL is broken in a vanilla XAMPP installation with PHP4. So, he says, you won't be able to use 'PECL' directly and when you try to install manually with phpize you will get an error.

He shows a step-by-step guide of how to install a PECL extension (Memcache in this case) in the latest XAMPP too.

He also tells you about libevent and its problems and how you can rectify them.