You need both. One is the service/daemon (memcached), one is the module that lets memcached talk to PHP (memcache).
Thanks Willie!
Makes me wonder what the logic is of having them separated… Maybe to allow the option of having your own client talk to the service/daemon.
I take it W3TC is using “memcache” for talking to “memcached”.
I just realized that, being confused myself, I was adding to the confusion… So here is the question formulated better, I hope.
I understand that the service/daemon is installed on Linux with the “memcached” package.
However, for the “memcache” part of the equation I understand that Ubuntu 14.04 offers 2 package options, “php5-memcache” and “php5-memcached”, the former being the older version, and the latter being the newer and more feature-rich option.
Am I thinking in the right direction, and will W3TC work with both “php5-memcache” and “php5-memcached”, or one is preferred over the other?
Thanks again!
Neither is preferred from a W3 Total Cache perspective, and the next release (0.9.2.5) will add support for the more actively maintained version.
From what I have read on the web, this seems to be the newer one, “php5-memcached”.
Thanks again.
