It's also good to note that add will succeed if the key exists but is expired
Memcache::add
(PECL memcache >= 0.2.0)
Memcache::add — Add an item to the server
Descrição
Memcache::add() stores variable var with key only if such key doesn't exist at the server yet. Also you can use memcache_add() function.
Parâmetros
- key
-
The key that will be associated with the item.
- var
-
The variable to store. Strings and integers are stored as is, other types are stored serialized.
- flag
-
Use MEMCACHE_COMPRESSED to store the item compressed (uses zlib).
- expire
-
Expiration time of the item. If it's equal to zero, the item will never expire. You can also use Unix timestamp or a number of seconds starting from current time, but in the latter case the number of seconds may not exceed 2592000 (30 days).
Valor Retornado
Retorna TRUE em caso de sucesso ou FALSE em falhas. Returns FALSE if such key already exist. For the rest Memcache::add() behaves similarly to Memcache::set().
Exemplos
Exemplo #1 Memcache::add() example
<?php
$memcache_obj = memcache_connect("localhost", 11211);
/* procedural API */
memcache_add($memcache_obj, 'var_key', 'test variable', false, 30);
/* OO API */
$memcache_obj->add('var_key', 'test variable', false, 30);
?>
Veja Também
- Memcache::set() - Store data at the server
- Memcache::replace() - Replace value of the existing item
Memcache::add
04-Aug-2009 01:39
27-Apr-2009 11:08
skeleton of a thread safe updater for an incremental counter:
<?php
$key = "counter";
$value = $memcache->increment($key, 1);
if ($value === false) {
// --- read from DB ---
$query = "SELECT value FROM database";
$result = mysql_query($query);
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
$db_value = $row["value"];
$add_value = $memcache->add($key, $db_value + 1, 0, 0);
if ($add_value === false) {
$value = $memcache->increment($key, 1)
if ($value === false) {
error_log ("counter update failed.");
}
} else {
$value = $db_value + 1;
}
}
// --- display counter value ---
echo $value;
?>
18-Feb-2009 08:47
If you want to add an entry without using the locking method below (takes up extra space), try it this way:
<?php
if(!$mc->replace("key", $data))
$mc->set("key", $data;
?>
That way it will simply try to overwrite the value if a user has already (re)created the key. This is best in high-traffic sites where a user set()'s the data while another user has already tried a get() check and found nothing. Even this method still leaves a small microsecond window open for the same thing. However it helps prevent nasty glitches with submitting multiple entries after a get() check and the system has taken time to recompile the data to send to Memcached, after another user's request has processed this transaction.
06-Oct-2008 06:04
Key may not exceed 250 chars according to memcached protocol.
03-Apr-2008 04:32
memcache has no locking mechanism, but you could implement it manually.
basic locking through the add method:
<?php
// locks time out after 5 seconds
Define( 'LOCK_TIMEOUT', 5 );
$lock = $memcache->add( 'lock:' . $key, 1, false, LOCK_TIMEOUT );
if ( $lock ) {
// no lock on this key, so do what you want
$value = $memcache->get( $key );
$memcache->set( $key, $value+1 );
// release lock
$memcache->delete( 'lock:' . $key );
}
else {
// variable is currently locked, so do something else
}
?>
furthermore, you could implement a loop which checks if there is a lock, and if there is, wait some time and try again, until the lock is free.
remember: locking will heavily increase your memcache hits and obviously is not what memcache is made for. altough it's not possible for a lock to be forgotten (there's a timeout after all) there is the possibility to get locked out for a very long time.
an alternative may be to implement locking through apc_add (or shared memory), but i've never tried it.
if you absolutley have to implement locks, memcached is probably the wrong solution anyway.
18-Jun-2007 05:13
if you read source code for MMC_SERIALIZED you will see at line ~1555 that only !(is_string,is_long,is_double,is_bool) are serialized
and that serialized values are flaged as MMC_SERIALIZED for return (fetch) code unserialize these values again
