How to use memcache (not memcached) in CodeIgniter 2.1.3

Question

Codeigniter comes with a memcached driver library, but this doesn't work for memcache (note the missing d). Anyone know how to implement memcache into codeigniter 2.1.3?

Answer 1

Seems like CI is only trying to use Memcached on their driver:

system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_memcached.php

Check the _setup_memcached private function.

This 3rd party memcached library for codeigniter has served us well. If you look through the code , you can see that it is prioritising Memcache over Memcached when setting up the client type. You can easily switch that if you want it the other way around.