Comments on: Memcached with PHP on Mac OS X

By: sofien

sofien — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:23:20 +0000

i have an mac Ibook G4 in tiger…
i installed Xampp for developping in CakePhp…
when I go to url “localhost/project” ; i look that error !!! :
“Fatal error: Class ‘Memcache’ not found in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/projects/cakephp/app/vendors/cake_memcache.php on line 28″
any one have an idea? thx a lot

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:01:44 +0000

I assume you’re doing something like $cache = new Memcache() in the php file you referenced. You can also run PHP from the command line and see if it works there.

cd /Library/WebServer/Documents/
php test.php

If that works, you just need to restart Apache.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:29:22 +0000

Erik and Matt,

Thanks for the tips guys. I have a Late ‘08 Macbook and I can’t get this to work any which way round. In my test file I keep getting: Fatal error: Class ‘Memcache’ not found in /Library/WebServer/Documents/test.php on line 3

Built memcache extension from scratch for 32-bit and 64-bit. Updated PHP ini with all the necessaries. It doesn’t seem to be registering the extension tho help?

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:03:06 +0000

Great tip! I’m first-gen MBP still, so I’m only 32bit.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:17:04 +0000

as an addendum, make sure to change the magic double quotes to normal double quotes, as I seem to have pasted them incorrectly

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:41:19 +0000

Hi Giles,

I originally ran into the same problem as you, but have fortunately found a solution. Are you working on a 64bit machine? If so, try:

“MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5 CFLAGS=”-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe -no-cpp-precomp” CCFLAGS=”-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe” CXXFLAGS=”-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe” LDFLAGS=”-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -bind_at_load” ./configure”

instead of just “./configure”. Chances are you are going to have to “sudo su” to root before running that command. Then, follow the rest of Erik’s guide, and it should work for you!

I found the above code at: “http://www.kenior.com/macintosh/adding-gettext-extension-for-mac-os-x-leopard”, fyi.

Matt

By: Giles

Giles — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:03:43 +0000

Got the same error copying yours in. Gah! This is absolutely maddening.

Amazingly if I remove a working extension (gd.so) from that same directory, I get exactly the same error, ‘(null) in unknown on line 0′ – indicating that PHP apparently gives this error when “file not found” would be more appropriate. Now I have no idea if it’s having a problem finding / reading the file or whether there’s an error loading it up.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:50:06 +0000

Giles,

Glad the post helped, sorry it didn’t outright work for you. I’ve posted mine should you, or anyone else want to download it.
http://af-design.com/downloads/memcache.so.tar.gz

Erik

By: Giles

Giles — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:43:20 +0000

Hi Erik,

Thanks very much for the post, I was trying to do exactly the same thing to avoid switching to MAMP, but wasn’t aware of the phpize command, so I ran into a wall.

I now have the problem that I followed your process exactly, got the .so generated in the same place, but PHP doesn’t like it:

PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/memcache.so’ – (null) in Unknown on line 0

Is there any chance you could email me your .so file to see if I can use it?

Thanks,
Giles