Laravel Session driver memcached not working

Question

I am trying to set up Laravel to use memcached as a session driver, but I can't get it to work.

• I have installed memcached on my Windows development machine
• It works in the "regular" cache configuration

I get no error whatsoever in the Laravel log.

I have no idea what could be wrong, and there's little on setting memcached as a session driver for Laravel, or at least little on the problem I am experiencing.

I am using PHP 5.5 and Laravel 4.2.

Answer 1

Turns out in Laravel config/cache.php uses Memcache (without the -d) and config/session.php uses Memcached (with the -d). Unfortunately, as far as I found out, MemcacheD isn't available for Windows platforms (or at least the PHP version I'm using).