I have a page where few thousands of users can hit a method at the same time . I do have following code where I connect every time . Since this will go to a seperate memcache server will this cause slowdowns is there a way to connect just once and reuse that connection ? Do I have to close connection after every request ?
$primary_connected = $memcache_primary->connect($primary_memcache_server, 11211);
if($primary_connected){
$data = $memcache_primary->get($key);
if ($data != NULL) {
return data;
}
}
else{
/////Get data from database
}
If you are using the PHP memcached class (the one with the d on the end, not memcache) then yes, you can open a persistent connection.
You can pass a persistent ID to the constructor which will open a persistent connection and subsequent instances that use the same persistent ID will use that connection.
$memcached = new Memcached('method_name_or_persistent_identifier');
$memcached->addServer(...);
// use it
Hope that helps.
See Memcached::__construct() for more details.