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Installing Memcached PHP Extension for CentOS and Fedora

Installing the PHP Extension for Memcached is a simple process, this tutorial will show installation for CentOS and Fedora operating systems. The installation is done through the command line using yum.

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Warning:

You must install Memcached on your server before installing the extension. See our article Installing memecached on CentOS 7 and Fedora.

First, clean up yum:
```
yum clean all
```
Then make sure your packages are all up to date:
```
yum -y update
```
Now you are ready to install the PHP Memcached extension and related packages:
```
yum - y install php-pecl-memcache
```
To verify the installation of memcached, you’ll want to restart memcached and httpd:
```
systemctl restart memcached
systemctl restart httpd
```
You can view information on the installed PHP modules with the following command:
```
php - m | grep memcache
```
Look for a response similar to:
```
memcache
```

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