Installing memcache on Windows for PHP

Posted on January 10, 2008. Filed under: Apache, Memcache, PHP | Tags: cache, caching, Memcache, PHP, win32, windows |

LAST UPDATED SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

Installing memcache on Windows XP / Vista is kind of like voodoo for those of us who are not disciplined with compiling code from source. I initially attempted to install memcache a few months ago after reading a few articles about how much performance it can pump into your web application. The problem is that memcache was written with Linux in mind, not windows. So you can’t download any installers or exe files from memcache’s site for windows … which leaves people like me, who use WAMP stacks to develop applications, out in the cold.

So after a few hours of Googling I found a cocktail of methods and files to get memcache to work for win32.

A few things about memcache:
Memcache is a daemon, meaning it runs as a separate service on your machine. Just like MySQL runs as a separate service. In fact, to use memcache in PHP you have to connect to it, just like MySQL.

Think of memcache as the $_SESSION variable for PHP, but instead of it working on a per-user basis, it runs over the entire application — like MySQL. In fact, you can use memcache as you session handler for PHP.

This is how I got memcache to work on my windows machine:

Download memcache from code.jellycan.com/memcached/ [grab the ‘win32 binary’ version]
Install memcache as a service:
- Unzip and copy the binaries to your desired directory (eg. c:\memcached) [you should see one file, memcached.exe] – thanks to Stephen for the heads up on the new version
- If you’re running Vista, right click on memcached.exe and click Properties. Click the Compatibility tab. Near the bottom you’ll see Privilege Level, check “Run this program as an administrator”.
- Install the service using the command: c:\memcached\memcached.exe -d install from the command line
- Start the server from the Microsoft Management Console or by running one of the following commands: c:\memcached\memcached.exe -d start, or net start "memcached Server"

Now that you have memcache installed, you’ll have to tie it in with PHP in order to use it.

Check your php extensions directory [should be something like: C:\php\ext] for php_memcache.dll
If you don’t have any luck finding it, try looking at one of these sites:
– downloads.php.net/pierre/ [thanks to Henrik Gemal]
– pecl4win.php.net/ext.php/php_memcache.dll [currently down]
– www.pureformsolutions.com/pureform.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/php_memcache.dll for PHP 5.2.*
– kromann.info/download.php?strFolder=php5_1-Release_TS&strIndex=PHP5_1 for PHP 5.1.* [thanks, Rich]
Now find your php.ini file [default location for XP Pro is C:\WINDOWS\php.ini] and add this line to the extensions list:
```
extension=php_memcache.dll
```
Restart apache

Run this code to test the installation: [found on www.php.net/memcache]


<?php
    $memcache = new Memcache;
    $memcache->connect("localhost",11211); # You might need to set "localhost" to "127.0.0.1"

    echo "Server's version: " . $memcache->getVersion() . "<br />\n";

    $tmp_object = new stdClass;
    $tmp_object->str_attr = "test";
    $tmp_object->int_attr = 123;

    $memcache->set("key",$tmp_object,false,10);
    echo "Store data in the cache (data will expire in 10 seconds)<br />\n";

    echo "Data from the cache:<br />\n";
    var_dump($memcache->get("key"));
?>

If you see anything but errors, you are now using memcache!

EDIT

Memcached, by default, loads with 64mb of memory for it’s use which is low for most applications. To change this to something else, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\memcached Server in your registry, find the ImagePath entry and change it to look something like this:

“C:\memcached\memcached.exe” -d runservice -m 512

Now when you start the service via net start “memcached Server”, it will run with 512mb of memory at it’s disposal.

EDIT

[Thanks to Travis]
If anyone is wondering what other options can be set (other than the memory limit), run “memcached -help” in a command prompt window. Then modify the ImagePath command line per this article with the desired switches and values.

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Thanks, its so useful!!

Hannan Nozari
February 12, 2008

any tips on how to increase max memory? -m in command line doesn’t seem to do it for me.

colum
March 4, 2008

colum,

I added to the post addressing the max memory.

pureform
March 4, 2008

Really very useful article.
I got everything .
Thank you very much.

bijul soni
April 21, 2008

Thank you – this is great!

Anastasia
May 14, 2008

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May 21, 2008

Dude, thank you for this! I was stuck at 65Megs and couldn’t figure out how to change that setting. Thanks!

Tim Merrifield
June 11, 2008

The pecl4win.php.net site is down. Anyone know where I can find the windows binary for the pecl memcache client?

Derak
June 17, 2008

Try here: http://www.pureformsolutions.com/pureform.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/php_memcache.dll

This is 6 for PHP 5.2.6 [though it will probably work for 5.2.x]

pureform
June 17, 2008

I believe this is a more recent version of memcached for Win32.

David Kaspar
June 20, 2008

Bloody awesome guide, thanks mate, Me love you long time :P

Brett
July 10, 2008

Use the 1.2.5 binaries from here:

You can get a 1.2.5 binary here:
http://code.jellycan.com/memcached/

Or here:
http://code.google.com/p/beitmemcached/downloads/list

Both of these are much newer and most importantly remove a very troublesome problem with Memcached and Windows machines with multi-cores where one core would be eaten up by Memcached.

Stephen
July 31, 2008

thanks, very useful and simple manual!

Ika
August 26, 2008

thanks!

Gercek
August 26, 2008

Kudos, my friend. This was a great help :)

KevBurnsJr
September 12, 2008

Remember to use the non-thread-safe version of the pecl library if your php is non-thread safe, otherwise the dll won’t load [check using phpinfo()]

Nick Stanton
October 8, 2008

Thanks brad ! That’s a great useful work.

Hugues
October 8, 2008

Man this really rocked for me. I was hunting it down for months and got it now. Like you I have my test and development environment on my local PC which is windows and it was always difficult for me to test the things equally on my devel box and prod box :)

imoracle
October 15, 2008

Great jobs ! thanks a lot. Your tutorial is very clear.

quang
October 18, 2008

Thank you very much

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October 21, 2008

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techlinks › Memcache
November 17, 2008

This didn’t work for me… I got a “failed to install service or service already installed” error on installation.

Furthermore, I got the latest version of memcache from Jellycan but it only includes the .exe file mentioned here, not the .dll.

No one else had this problem?

Lance Goodthrust
November 24, 2008

if you are missing this file MSVCR71.dll just like me then download it from: http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?msvcr71

It worked for me.

Aashish
April 23, 2009

r u sure u r executing first install command then start command?
i got the same error “fail to install service” then i realize i was directly executing start command without executing install command. make sure u have execute first install command

pradipinfo
May 27, 2009

I had the same problem. Running the command prompt as an administrator before doing the install fixed the issue.

Jeff
June 7, 2011

This helped me, thank you

Dima
September 26, 2011

thanks Jeff. u saved my time!

Amir
July 26, 2012

Dude, you saved my lot of time!
Thank you so much.. it is really very worth information!

Dayananda MR
December 2, 2008

if you are trying to install memcached on windows vista, right click on the memcached.exe, go to its properties and make sure on the compatibility, run as administrator is selected.
good luck

quantize
December 9, 2008

Very helpful.Thanks for the guidence.

Azaad
December 18, 2008

Thanks a lot. Great job!

aaa
December 23, 2008

Hey! thank a bunch man!
was planning on experimenting with memcache for a while, but to lazy to figure out how to get it working on win32..
saved my day!

Zogs
January 7, 2009

greate article! thanks!!

manzuni
January 15, 2009

super super :)

ignis
January 29, 2009

Thanks You! Very much. It is very good article to install memcache in widows. It helps me a lot.

Anand Kumar
February 9, 2009

while restating the Apache after extension added I am getting following error in the error.log and extension not loading

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: memcache: Unable to initialize module\nModule compiled with module API=20050922, debug=0, thread-safety=1\nPHP compiled with module API=20060613, debug=0, thread-safety=1\nThese options need to match\n in Unknown on line 0

Please can anybody help me

Ramarao
March 16, 2009

Thanhk you

hoang nguyen
March 30, 2009

You can find a php 5.3 version of the memcache here:
http://kromann.info/download.php?strFolder=php5_3-Release_TS&strIndex=PHP5_3

Thiago Mata
April 17, 2009

php_memcache.dll can be found/downloaded here:

http://downloads.php.net/pierre/

Henrik Gemal
April 20, 2009

very detailed description.. very useful. saved lot of my time. thanks.

Aashish
April 23, 2009

How to install it in a IIS7.5 (w2k8 R2) which is only x64 not x86.
memcached.exe install fails looking for msvcr71.dll
Cheers!

crazy webmaster
April 24, 2009

Thanks a lot!

Pavel Petrov
April 27, 2009

I am running EasyPHP 2.0b1.
I installed memcached from the windows binary.
I started the memcached service and can telnet into it just fine.
The php_memcache.dll file is present in the ext directory.
The extension is enabled in php.ini and shows up with phpinfo().
I’ve tried turning off my firewall.

Still, I get this error when trying to connect from PHP:

Warning: Memcache::connect() [function.Memcache-connect]: Can’t connect to localhost:11211, A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. (10060)

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Eric
April 30, 2009

very helpful! thanks a lot

joe mak
May 1, 2009

OK, I changed
$memcache->connect(‘localhost’,11211);
to
$memcache->connect(‘127.0.0.1’,11211);
and it worked!

Eric
May 1, 2009

!st, This is my most favorite blog post in the whole internet – thank you and others who helped make a binary…

In general, is it ok or normal to install memcached on the webserver machine (localhost) or better to use on external machines in the same LAN ?

John A
May 6, 2009

Anyone know where I can find a .dll for PHP 5.3 ??

William Meyer
May 7, 2009

And I need one for PHP 5.1.6. . .

Rich
May 7, 2009

And I (finally) found one that worked here: http://kromann.info/download.php?strFolder=php5_1-Release_TS&strIndex=PHP5_1. Hopefully this will help someone else who can’t get memcached to load.

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May 7, 2009

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May 12, 2009

Thanks mate, got it up and running in no time thanks to this guide

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May 15, 2009

Awesome! This made setup a breeze!

Laran Evans
May 23, 2009

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Futtjuiggitly
May 25, 2009

Very useful! Thanks

Nightfly
May 27, 2009

this document really rocking anyone can do this instalation .This really clear.nice .I am impressed .with out admin i did instalation

Rajasekhar
June 19, 2009

Something I found a while ago (sorry, I can’t remember where, so can’t give proper credit). Makes a “nicely” named service, and sets the max memory at 2gigs and port at (the default) 11211:

“sc create memcached11211 binPath= “C:\php\memcached\memcached.exe -d runservice -p 11211 -m 2048” start= auto DisplayName= “MemCached 11211”
(you MUST put the little spaces after the “=” signs!)
This will register a service called “memcached 11211”, with auto start enabled, the DisplayName “MemCached 11211” and the parameters in the binPath.
On a side note, we’re currently running Kenneth’s 1.2.4 Win32-preview build (http://www.splinedancer.com/memcached-win32/) in production with pretty heavy traffic (largest webshop in northern Europe), working great so far. Only problem we have detected is that the service refuses to stop, you must kill the process to stop it. Only a minor annoynance. :-)”

Dean Higginbotham
June 19, 2009

this article helped me a lot to install memcache.
thanks a lot…..

krishan
June 23, 2009

i downloaded the windows version but there is no memcached.exe file. Anyone else run into this issue?

yemmer
June 30, 2009

nevermind..i downloaded teh wrong file. doh.

yemmer
June 30, 2009

Great installation guide. Thanks for sharing with us.

Sastha L
July 13, 2009

thanks a lot! made it with some problems on W7 :)

metalpower
July 13, 2009

Its Done Boss, really working!!!

Jawwad Ahmed
July 13, 2009

Thanks, got me up and running in no time!

edanb
July 23, 2009

Thank you. Excellent!

Mitch
July 30, 2009

hi great post 10x, however i was unable to execte the example i am getting:
“Fatal error: Class ‘Memcache’ not found”
i added the dll to the ext list in the php.ini and restart apache with no luck please advise.

oded
August 3, 2009

You ought to check and see if the memcached extension is complied for the version of php you have installed… You can check apache’s error_log to see if that’s the issue. The files listed above are for php 5.1 and php 5.2, so if you’re running 5.3 or a 6.0 build, it wont work properly.

pureform
August 4, 2009

thanks for the help however i am using php 5.2.0 here are some more details that may shade some light.

running the phpinfo i get:
php version 5.2.0
system Windows NT USER-PC 6.0 build 6001
apache api version 20020903

i using Vista

where else should i check to get more details that may help to track the problem.

10x Oded

oded
August 7, 2009

I manage to work it out, it seems that PHP 5.2.0 cannot load the memcached dll, after upgrading to 5.2.10 everything went well.

Thanks for the help.

Oded

oded
August 8, 2009

great work!

Thank u so much.

millan
August 5, 2009

it’s the first tutorial about this topic, that really worked for me. thank you so much.

Karsten
August 6, 2009

Great article – thanks very much!

Paul
August 7, 2009

I’m looking for the PECL Win32 php_memcache.dll for PHP 5.3 I only found the one for PHP 5.2
Thanks!

Yago
September 4, 2009

tks for the post :D

Vu
September 7, 2009

Thank you for the fantastic Step by Step expanation.
The Links to the memcached.dll were just what I needed to make it work.
Thank you very much.

Hugo
September 10, 2009

thanks! nice tutorial

David
September 23, 2009

gee, thank u so much guys, my memcache is working now…

nurv7
November 7, 2009

wow!!!simply great, thanks alot, i really found it helpful. Can you write more examples of using memcached.

ravi
November 9, 2009

thank you for this tutorial…
it really saved me a lot of time

Zaid
December 4, 2009

Thankssssss its helped sooo much

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December 20, 2009

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Tutorial is simple and great!
I installed memcached just as you said, and it works!
Thanks!

WallTearer
December 21, 2009

This is awesome! Thanks.

soollung2
December 28, 2009

I am really thankful to you.

u saved a lot of time.

Amol
January 25, 2010

None of these DLL’s work with that binary.

Fun House Games
February 19, 2010

Ok so I just checked, I’m using 5.3.0 and its not working, any ideas?

Fun House Games
February 19, 2010

Really very helpful, Thank you

Pedro
March 2, 2010

thank you very much, that was very useful

msanii
March 7, 2010

I have a weird problem. My Memcached works fine, I’ve managed to test it. Weird thing is that I have to call getVersion() function before I can fetch data from cache. I’ve tried it with and without the function. Any idea what could cause it?

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March 22, 2010

Great article.

After setup, I found that set to memcache always return false. Is there any idea to troubleshoot this issue?

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March 26, 2010

i have the same problem. When i set to memcache, sometimes it shows message, Notice: Memcache::set() [memcache.set]: Server 127.0.0.1 (tcp 80) failed with: Failed reading line from stream (0). But sometimes not. When I get values, it always return false.

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If I install memcache 1.2.6 at my windows apache php 5.2 build 3790 system I get always this php error:
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘c:\PHP5\ext\php_memcache52.dll’ – Die angegebene Prozedur wurde nicht gefunden.
in Unknown on line 0

But the dll is there. And I tried every windows php_memcache.dll version from pierre – Does anybody knows what to do. Would be great if yes!

Thx in advance!

cheers,
Tom

Tom
May 11, 2010

Nice info,,Thank’s

Mich
May 31, 2010

Thank you so much. Everything works great with the latest php 5.3.2

DmitrySh
June 14, 2010

I’m trying to install this for php 5.3.3. I’m having no luck. If I add the extension to php I get a server fault when trying to start apache. No error in the log, no explanation whatsoever, just can’t start it. I’m using the memcache-cvs-5.3-VC6 dll.

Brandon
October 1, 2010

It’s still work at IIS 7 !!

Thank you ever so much!

Lael
June 28, 2010

Ey can i have some help? did everything wht was writen down but its not working, im running appserv and everytime i get this: Fatal error: Class ‘Memcache’ not found in C:\AppServ\www\test.php on line 2

my PHP Version is 5.2.6 i tried everything but its not working, can someone give me a hint?

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July 2, 2010

Thanks a heap. You saved me the trouble of compiling the memcache module myself.

Stan
July 18, 2010

I need the memcache dll for php 5.2.0.
No one is working.
Does anybody know where to get the memcache dll for 5.2.0?
thanks in advance!
Best
Michael

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Hello

Very useful article. Does the php.ini file require any configuration parameters to recognise memcache? Followed your article but couldn’t see Memcache listed by phpinfo().

I’m attempting use Memcache with PHP5.3.1.

Paul D
September 11, 2010

I’m not sure if it does. I was able to run it without doing any extra config.

Did you try the 5.3.x extension from this site? http://downloads.php.net/pierre

PureForm
September 11, 2010

If anyone is wondering what other options can be set (other than the memory limit), run “memcached -help” in a command prompt window. Then modify the ImagePath command line per this article with the desired switches and values.

Travis
September 11, 2010

Great starter tutorial.This helps a lot. Thanks :)

saiful103a
September 13, 2010

i could not navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\memcached Server, can anyone explain me how this can be done

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October 5, 2010

Good one.

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November 21, 2010

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Carlos Marques
February 22, 2011

First, this is a nice howto :-)
Second, nothing works for me, the Memcache Class can’t be found. I use Windows 7 Pro with PHP 5.3.5 and get the Jellycan Code’s memcached Version 1.2.6 and later 1.2.5. The memcached.exe has admin-rights and i set temporarily the XP/Vista compatibility. Memcached runs as Service and the php.ini has the extension enabled.

All setting configuration are correct. Does anyone have any idea what I could still try?

Rob
March 2, 2011

Did you try the memcache extensions from downloads.php.net/pierre/?

http://downloads.php.net/pierre/php_memcache-2.2.6-5.3-nts-vc9-x86.zip

http://downloads.php.net/pierre/php_memcache-2.2.6-5.3-vc9-x86.zip

PureForm
March 2, 2011

Yes, all of them and all the dlls from other published links from the comments.

I don’t think i have the Ultimate-Special-System wich Memcached won’t work :-)

Rob
March 2, 2011

I have some error while restart the apache..
i am
Using
OS:Windows Xp;
PHP:PHP Version 5.3.2
Apache:Apache/2.2.17

sabari
April 4, 2011

Hi,

I have to use memcached not the memcache.
new Memcached()
php_memcache.dll does not support the memcached. can you help me to run Memcached please.

Bhuban
April 6, 2011

I am using WAMP server within windows 7.

Bhuban
April 6, 2011

Dude, thank you for this!

Spike
April 27, 2011

Hi,
i tryed to install via:
memcached.exe -d install but i get this error:
“Failed to ignore SIGHUP: Invalid argument”

hm, any ideas?

best wishes
Michael

WhyT
April 29, 2011

I got the “SIGHUP” error, too. Using memcached 1.4.4 that I got from here fixed the issue for me.

ucavus
January 20, 2014

Thanks this worked for me on Windows 8, Neither memcached-1.4.5-win64, nor memcached-1.4.5-win32 worked. Hope this helps others.

David Edmister
November 4, 2014

Versions on Windows 8.1
XAMPP 1.8.3
PHP: 5.5.15
memcached-1.4.5-win32 (command prompt (admin): memcached.exe -d install)
DLL download version x86
http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/releases/memcache/3.0.8/php_memcache-3.0.8-5.5-ts-vc11-x86
PHP.ini: extension=php_memcache.dll

Restart Apache

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November 4, 2014

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e sağlık
June 3, 2011

Receiving Fatal Error: class Memcache not Found.

Mubashar Ahmad
June 22, 2011

Thanks for the info.

First when I tried this it was giving a error ‘Fatal error: Class ‘Memcache’ not found’
Then I realized the dll I have used is wrong.
I was using V9 version but now I use V6.
http://shikii.net/blog/downloads/php_memcache-cvs-20090703-5.3-VC6-x86.zip

Now no errors.
I am using Windows 7, apache server XAMPP

Hope this will help anyone having the same issue.

Madhu
July 4, 2011

Hello.
PHP Version 5.3.5
PHP API 20090626
PHP Extension 20090626
Zend Extension 220090626
Zend Extension Build API220090626,TS,VC6
PHP Extension Build

Where can i find the right php_memcache.dll? When i try to start apache, there comes the error that the module is not compiled with the right php build.

MFG Daniel

Scretchy
July 9, 2011

Thanks for sharing, good job!! :D

Joanna
July 17, 2011

Are all the projects implied kept compatible withj windows?

serge
August 24, 2011

thanks.really liked the article, but somehow cant connect to the memcached server yet despite I can see its running through command prompt and memcache extension dll also added. any clue??

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September 7, 2011

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September 19, 2011

Great, thanks alot for this…I found that I was having problems until i saved the memcache.exe file to a directory named memcached in the xampp directory (ie. NOT C:memcached BUT C:xampp\memcached)…hey, maybe thats just me being a t**t!

Simon
January 7, 2012

this is memcache!!!!!!

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January 7, 2012

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January 12, 2012

Thanks, I have been reading a lot tutorials but no one says something basic like you did… run cmd.exe as administrator, so thanks very much it worked!

Jonay Pelluz
January 15, 2012

Thank you very much sir

Gajanan
January 17, 2012

Merci :o)

iadeo
January 22, 2012

Hi,

Thanks a lot its really very helpful,

It’s Working like a charm

Thanks again
Harsh

Harsh
February 2, 2012

I still found this useful, I’m grateful to you!

John
February 13, 2012

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February 26, 2012

i wonderd why this is not work for me. i am getting this error: “Fatal error: Class ‘Memcache’ not found” but the service is started correctly and i did all you thought. what can i do?
thanks

Alireza
March 1, 2012

i am using apache v2.2.21 and php v5.3.9 .

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March 1, 2012

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April 8, 2012

thanks

duck
June 15, 2012

Superb, thanks.

Quick note – I’m using WAMPServer 2.1 on Windows 32-bit, and I had to use a different version of php_memcache.dll:

http://shikii.net/blog/downloads/php_memcache-cvs-20090703-5.3-VC6-x86.zip

Found it through Stack Overflow (bless ’em)

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July 29, 2012

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August 14, 2012

Class ‘Memcache’ not found is that the error he is talking about?

Alchemyst
September 24, 2012

http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/snaps/memcache/3.0.6/

any body still looking for memcache.. this is working.

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November 9, 2012

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December 3, 2012

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December 21, 2012

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February 10, 2013

Fiuh you’ve saved my works

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May 1, 2013

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May 22, 2013

I wish learned this long time ago. I received two job offers with this skill.

boe var (@bbboooeee)
July 27, 2013

I update the post with new link for windows 8/8.1 and for php 5.2-5.5

http://www.kapadiya.net/blog/installing-memcached-windows-8-81/

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May 27, 2014

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