PHP 5.4 & Laravel Class 'Memcached' not found

Question

I realize there are about 10 of these questions out there but none fit me completely.

Steps completed:

1. Installed memcache
2. installed php memcache module
3. updated laravel config to use memcache
4. Restarted server

php info results:

memcache.allow_failover 1   1
memcache.chunk_size 8192    8192
memcache.default_port   11211   11211
memcache.default_timeout_ms 1000    1000
memcache.hash_function  crc32   crc32
memcache.hash_strategy  standard    standard
memcache.max_failover_attempts  20  20

memcached-tool results:

         accepting_conns           1
               auth_cmds           0
             auth_errors           0
                   bytes           0
              bytes_read          14
           bytes_written        1096
              cas_badval           0
                cas_hits           0
              cas_misses           0
               cmd_flush           0
                 cmd_get           0
                 cmd_set           0
               cmd_touch           0
             conn_yields           0
   connection_structures           6
       crawler_reclaimed           0
        curr_connections           5
              curr_items           0
               decr_hits           0
             decr_misses           0
             delete_hits           0
           delete_misses           0
       evicted_unfetched           0
               evictions           0
       expired_unfetched           0
                get_hits           0
              get_misses           0
              hash_bytes      524288
       hash_is_expanding           0
        hash_power_level          16
               incr_hits           0
             incr_misses           0
                libevent 2.0.21-stable
          limit_maxbytes   268435456
     listen_disabled_num           0
       lrutail_reflocked           0
            malloc_fails           0
                     pid       12022
            pointer_size          64
               reclaimed           0
            reserved_fds          20
           rusage_system    0.043400
             rusage_user    0.065101
                 threads           4
                    time  1421438137
       total_connections           7
             total_items           0
              touch_hits           0
            touch_misses           0
                  uptime        2607
                 version      1.4.21

It is in php -m as "memcache"

However, when i go into php artisan tinker and try to do any caching I get the typical Fatal error: Class 'Memcached' not found in vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cache/MemcachedConnector.php on line 44

TL;DR;

I have confirmed install of memcache through multiple methods. Confirmed the module for php is installed. Still not allowing me to use memcached class.

Answer 1

If you are in a ubuntu environment, try to install Memcached with this:

sudo apt-get install php5-memcached

After that restart your server with

sudo service lighttpd restart

or

sudo service apachectl2 restart

or

sudo service nginx restart

Answer 2

Memcache and Memcached are two different PHP extensions. Memcache is the older deprecated one. Memcached is a much newer and fully supported extension.

Check out http://pecl.php.net/package/memcached

You may need to also install libmemcached https://launchpad.net/libmemcached/+download