You need two things, first the memcached server itself, which I presume you already have and have been able to install.
If you want to test that it's running, you can simply telnet to it and issue commands like stats or set foo 0 0 12 Hello World! and get foo The second part you need is a client library. Which one you get is highly dependent on which programming language you intend to use, but there's a big list of libraries here: http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/Clients Most clients come with examples and tutorials on how to use them, and exactly which method calls are available depends on the client. If you were to use C# and my client, you'd use it like this: http://code.google.com/p/beitmemcached/wiki/Examples /Henrik On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 09:28, Bennett Haselton <benn...@peacefire.org>wrote: > > I've tried installing new Linux server programs before and getting > simple 'hello world' scripts working that demonstrate the program, but > I very often get stuck on the install instructions or the hello world > scripts, because the documentation relies on certain shared > assumptions with the target audience, and I don't know enough to have > those shared assumptions. (For example, documentation might say to > chance a .conf file, but wouldn't say that you have to restart the > service that uses that .conf file, because "everybody knows" that, but > I wouldn't know that and I would get stuck. Now, I do actually know > that specific fact :) but that's just an example, it's that kind of > thing I get stuck on.) > > So, are there options for me to just hire a consultant to just tell me > exactly how to install memcached on two servers, and then write two > hello world scripts to demonstrate its use for storing and retrieving > a value across the shared cache: > > # First machine > StoreKeyValuePair("abc", $largestring); > > # Second machine > $temp = RetrieveKeyValue("abc"); > > and then $temp should contain $largestring. > > Bennett >
