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local-wp-php-memcached.md

Notes for getting memcached (not memcache) running on Local WP and PHP

In the Local WP site shell

brew install memcached libmemcached zlib pkg-config
pecl install memcached

Pass in the appropriate paths.

/opt/homebrew/Cellar/libmemcached/1.0.18_2
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/zlib/1.3.1

Turn on memcached in Local

extension=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/php/8.4.6/pecl/20240924/memcached.so

Notes for getting memcache (not memcached) running on Local WP and PHP

In the Local WP site shell

brew install zlib
PHP_ZLIB_DIR=/opt/homebrew/opt/zlib pecl install memcache

Turn on memcache in Local

extension=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/php/8.4.8/pecl/20240924/memcache.so
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