Suggestion: Memcached extension (re-submission of #623)

[valtonia]

Please implement memcached module support in F3.

I realise from #623 that you say there's no need to implement both memcache and memcached module support I should point out that AFAIK the memcache module does not work with PHP 7 or above, whereas the memcached module does. Given that PHP 7.0 has been out for some time now and support for the memcache module is still not forthcoming, it would make sense to now include memcached module support in F3.

Thanks

[bcosca]

I disagree. I use 7.1.1 with both memcache and mongodb extensions without any trouble whatsoever. Nothing in the PHP docs nor blogs state that these modules are being deprecated or abandoned either.

[xfra35]

The official repo is unmaintained, and so is the PECL package. But there's an unofficial repo which has ported the extension to PHP7.
@bcosca which one are you using?

[bcosca]

I use the 3.0.9-dev package that comes along with ArchLinux (which is based on the code here on Github) and it still works.

[valtonia]

I really don't understand the reluctance to support a popular caching mechanism, but whatever, I implemented it myself and it took all of 15 minutes.

[xfra35]

@bcosca so that means ArchLinux has integrated the unofficial php7 port of php-memcache. But that's not the case for all distributions. For example, Debian gives only the choice between php5-memcache (3.0.8) and php7.0-memcached (3.0.1).