On the HowTo Forge website today, there's a new tutorial with a step-by-step process on installing the PHP-MemCache module onto a system running the CentOS 5.0 operating system.

"MemCached" is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. In this howto I explain how you can very easily install it and make it available in PHP.

The process only involves five or six main steps (installation, testing, etc not included) finishing with the loading of the memcache.so file into the php.ini for the system to enable it.