The other day I heard about Cache Router, a newish module for Drupal that allows multiple ways to cache content in a more scalable manor than the default Drupal caching. Since the Memcache module has been lagging behind for Drupal 6, I decided to give the new module a whirl on Developer Karama (using the Memcache method).

I had to compile the pecl memcache today for work on my devel system. I already had MAMP installed so I just wanted to do a pecl install ... turns out that won't work. There's a few steps you need to do first. (Note: you must have gcc installed to get this to work. Also, I won't cover installing memcached, just compiling the pecl memcache extension and tying it into php.)

• Using PECL to add to MAMP (OS X)
• First download the right php source from php.net In /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5 create an include directory