[SOLVED] Cant install memcache for PHP 4.3.9.

[rolf]

Hello everybody,

I have a problem getting memcache to work and would like to ask for your help.

I’ve been using WAMP (XP SP2, Apache 2.0.52, MySQL 4.1.21, PHP 4.3.9) without trouble for months now. To make use of memcache, I visited http://pecl4win.php.net/ext.php/php_memcache.dll
to fetch php_memcache.dll. The closest (and oldest) version available there was for PHP 4.3.11 – which worried me a little. However, since I can find nothing more suitable, I downloaded it into my extensions directory (C:\php\extensions). I then edited c:\windows\php.ini to uncomment:
extension=php_memcache.dll
extension_dir = "c:\php\extensions\"

Restarting apache now results in the error message
“Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library ‘C:\php\extensions\php_memcache.dll’ – The specified module could not be found.

I double-checked that my extensions directory is in my system %PATH%, so I really don’t understand why the dll cannot be found.

I’d be very grateful for any help on this.

Thanks,

Rolf.

[wildteen88]

In order to use that extension it will have to be the same version as the version of PHP your are using. Upgrade PHP to the latest version for PHP4 which is PHP4.4.4

[rolf]

I was hoping to avoid that... But I suspect you're right...

Thanks for the advice. I'll try it.

Rolf.

[rolf]

To close this post cleanly, I want to say thanks. You were right.

I upgraded to 4.4.4 and downloaded php_memcache.dll (shown there as suitable for php-4.4.1 (4_4)). It just worked immediately, without any complications.

Sincere thanks for your help. Without it I might have struggled on with 4.3.9 a lot longer.

Rolf.

[rolf]

Ooops. I was a bit to fast. The installation works fine now and apache no longer complains, but now I have the next error. When I put the following line in my php 4.4.4 code,

$memcache->connect('localhost') or die ("Could not connect");

the I get the following error

Can't connect to localhost:11211, Unknown error (0)

Any Idea what I'm doing wrong?

Rolf