“Fatal error: Class 'Memcached' not found” when trying to install Memcache in Ubuntu

Question

On Ubuntu, I am getting an error in memcache.

Fatal error: Class 'Memcached' not found

I have xampp and I have installed memcached and memcach. Actually I want memcache and I don't know what is the problem. When I run through terminal, I get this:

/etc/init.d/memcached status
 * memcached is running

Also

telnet 127.0.0.1 11211
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.

I'm using Ubuntu desktop version 32bit. Not getting where is the problem. Please be specific.

Answer 1

You are only talking about the memcache-daemon, but to access it from PHP you also need the PHP-extension

sudo apt-get install php5-memcached

• http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/php5-memcached
• http://php.net/memcached

Don't forget to restart the server.

Answer 2

Make sure you have extension = memcached.so in your php.ini. Add this text as ' extension = memcached.so ' at the end of file.

And Restart Apache.

Answer 3

On ubuntu I had to do:

 sudo apt-get install php5-memcache

Note that there is no 'd' in the end