title: How to install memcached on windows 7 + PHP 5.6.1
body: <p>I am having an incredibly hard time installing memcached. I went through a number of answers here on stackoverflow, as well as a couple of guides on other sites and I just cannot do it.</p>
  
  <p>I've gotten to a point where I've installed memcached as a service and I have it running ( or at least so I think ). Following the baby-steps on <a href="http://www.codeforest.net/how-to-install-memcached-on-windows-machine" rel="nofollow">this</a> article. However when I try to instantiate <code>new Memcache</code> or <code>new Memcached</code> I get class not found. So then I went to search for memcached options in <code>php.ini</code> and had 0 matches on a search for <code>memcached</code>. I manually added <code>extension=php_memcached.dll</code> among the other extension declarations but then I have to have a <code>dll</code> <em>which I cannot find anywhere</em>! Why don't they just put <code>dll</code>s on the php site? I found some <code>dll</code> for PHP version 5.4.0 but I received error "Compiled with old API key" or something of this nature.</p>
  
  <p>Can someone please guide me through this hell?</p>