Today I needed the PHP memcache extension on my Mac OSX Lion 10.7.3 development machine for a project I’m working on. I was pleased to find out that this was a nice and easy one to get up and running.
Open up a terminal window and run the command below, this will tell PECL to download, build and install the extension.
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sudo pecl install memcache |
Now that the extension is installed on your system, you need to enable it in your PHP configuration file. On a standard system the php.ini file can be found at /etc/php.ini. Open the file and scroll down to the extensions section, at the bottom of this section add the line extension=memcache.so and then save and close the file.
After that, all that is required is for you to restart Apache and enjoy your new extension
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sudo apachectl restart |
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pecl is not known by mac lion. how to make it work? Thanks before.
— agus kianto
Did you do an upgrade or clean install of Lion? Also are you using the PHP that comes built in or something like MAMP?
I suggest you first try upgrading pear using ‘sudo pear upgrade pear’, then try the pecl command again.
Thanks for the information – worked flawlessly for me here (clean Lion install, 10.7.4)
need help
tried above and get
downloading memcache-2.2.6.tgz …
Starting to download memcache-2.2.6.tgz (35,957 bytes)
……….done: 35,957 bytes
11 source files, building
running: phpize
grep: /usr/include/php/main/php.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/php/Zend/zend_modules.h: No such file or directory
grep: /usr/include/php/Zend/zend_extensions.h: No such file or directory
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version:
Zend Module Api No:
Zend Extension Api No:
Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the
$PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable. Then, rerun this script.
ERROR: `phpize’ failed
You are missing autoconf, there are a few ways to get it:
– Macports
– Brew or
– Compile from source
Hello,
I’ve been getting the following error when I start up apache. I’m on Lion and I tried it with Xcode 4.5 and 4.2. I’ve also tried adding configure flags.
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/memcache.so’ – dlopen(/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/memcache.so, 9): Symbol not found: _zend_new_interned_string\n Referenced from: /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/memcache.so\n Expected in: flat namespace\n in /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/memcache.so in Unknown on line 0