<?php
 
  // Change the following two lines to meet your memcached setup
  define('MEMCACHED_SERVER',  'localhost');
  define('MEMCACHED_PORT',    '11211');

  $memCache = memcache_connect(MEMCACHED_SERVER, MEMCACHED_PORT);
  
  if (!$memCache)
  {
      die("Cannot connect to memcached server. Is it running?");
  }

  // Connected to memcached server
  $key   = "FavoriteBook";
  $value = "Childhood's End";

  // Store the key=value pair
  $memCache->set($key, $value);

  echo "$key is set to $value in memcached.\n";

?>