According to the Memcached official website, it's a free, open source, high performance, and distributed memory object caching system. Memcached is an in-memory key-value store that can store datasets from a database or API calls.
Similarly to Redis, Memcached also helps a lot in speeding up a website. It stores the data (strings or objects) in the memory. This allows us to reduce the communication with outside resources, such as databases and or APIs.
Note
We are assuming that Memcached is installed on the server. Also, the PHP extension for PHP 7 is also assumed to be installed.
Now, let's play a little with Memcachd in PHP. Take a look at the following code:
//Instantiate Memcached Object
$memCached = new Memcached();
//Add server
$memCached->addServer('127.0.0.1', 11211);
//Lets get some data
$data = $memCached->get('packt_title');
//Check if data is available
if($data)
{
echo $data;
}
else
{
/*No data is found. Fetch your data from any where and...