PHP memcached extension

[Antony Dovgal]

On 04.09.2005 16:26, Russ Garrett wrote:
> > Joel Lee wrote:
> > 
>> >> http://us3.php.net/memcache
>> >>  
>> >> I am using this and it works great.  I'm not sure if the "best" PHP 
>> >> API is some topic of hot debate or not, I assume there must have been 
>> >> some problem or the links wouldn't have been pulled. 
>> >>  
>> >> Anyway, my vote is for this, an actual PHP extension.  To me, this 
>> >> seems the most formal, recognized effort to bring memcached to the PHP 
>> >> environment.
> > 
> > The main issue with that extension is that it doesn't have built-in 
> > multi-server support. 

Not precisely true.

See this pseudo-code:
<?php

$first_server = new Memcache(...);
$second_server = new Memcache(...);
$third_server = new Memcache(...);
$fourth_server = new Memcache(...);

?>

Nothing prevents you from using as much servers as you want in the same time.

I'm a strong believer that it's better to write couple of lines in PHP and have 100% flexible API then 
to hardcode some logics into the extension and have to work around it every time to get the desired behaviour.

> >The "mcache" 
> > (http://www.klir.com/~johnm/php-mcache/) extension is better 
> > feature-wise, and it's also based on the fairly widely-used libmemcache.

I'm just curious: besides this "multi-serverness" what are the additional features it offers?
Comparing to http://php.net/memcache, of course.

Thanks.

-- 
Wbr, 
Antony Dovgal