Installing Memcache on MAMP and Running It with PHP

Overview

I wanted to install Memcache in my local development environment.

Environment

MacOSX Yosemite 10.10.1
MAMP3.0.7.3

Note

What we are installing is Memcache. It is NOT Memcached.

ToDo

• Download and compile the Memcache source
• Load memcache.so from php.ini
• Restart MAMP

Steps

• Download and compile the Memcache source
• Load memcache.so from php.ini

• Sample usage from PHP

That’s all.