Using PECL/Memcached to store sessions
This post is the second part of my earlier article about installing and setting up the Memcached server and PECL/Memcached PHP client on CentOS 5.5.
Let’s assume you have PECL/Memcached up and running and want to use it as a session handler. I’ll talk below about why you’d want to do this (and why not) and how to get there.
Is storing sessions with Memcached a good idea?
As usual: it depends.
Regular file-based session storage is [...]
How to set up the Memcached PHP client library on CentOS 5
As we are currently building community features for our game download deal discovery site Deals4Downloads.com, I started investigating Memcached as a caching and session storage option. There are already many blog posts out there about this, but as many of them are unclear or even misleading, and I stumbled into every gotcha out there along the way, I thought I’d share some helpful tips here on how [...]
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