How do I install the Memcached PHP extension

Question

How do I install the Memcached extension?

Answer

PHP extension Memcached is provided by EasyApache 4 in the following packages:

ea-php72-php-memcached
ea-php73-php-memcached
ea-php74-php-memcached
ea-php80-php-memcached
ea-php81-php-memcached

You can install the Memcached extension using yum, specifying one of the PHP versions above.

yum install ea-phpXX-php-memcached

If  you're using the Ubuntu operating system, you can install the extension using apt-get:

apt-get install ea-phpXX-php-memcached