Memcache::connect()

Memcache::connect - Open memcached server connection

Syntax

bool Memcache::connect (string $host, int $port, int $timeout)

Arguments

• host - Point to the host where memcached is listening for connections. This parameter may also specify other transports like unix:///path/to/memcached.sockto use UNIX domain sockets, in this case port must also be set to 0.
• port - Point to the port where memcached is listening for connections. Set this parameter to 0when using UNIX domain sockets.
• timeout - Value in seconds which will be used for connecting to the daemon. Think twice before changing the default value of 1 second - you can lose all the advantages of caching if your connection is too slow.

Description

Memcache::connect() establishes a connection to the memcached server. The connection, which was opened using Memcache::connect() will be automatically closed at the end of script execution. Also you can close it with Memcache::close(). Also you can use memcache_connect() function.

Version

PHP PECL memcache >= 0.2.0

Return value

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.