Getting Memcached working on Windows Vista with Symfony

I finally found a solution to a long standing issue that had been driving me crazy: getting memcached to work with the PHP development framework Symfony on my Windows Vista based development machine. For whatever reason, it just has not worked for me from day 1 since moving to Vista (from XP) and setting up Symfony within WAMP (Apache, Mysql, PHP). The maddening thing is that memcached has worked fine with other non-symfony PHP based web apps in my Vista set up – it’s just the apps that are Symfony based that have not worked with memcached.

On to the solution: A modified version of memcached found here:

http://code.jellycan.com/memcached/

I don’t know why this does work, but I know it does and that’s good enough for me!