Robert, I am doing something similar. A full populate of my DB to memcached. It works for me. The only pitfall I had was clashing primary key's. So I used a LinkedList to store data into, so that with one key I can save multiple values.
Siddharth On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Robert Hanson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a plan to do this scenario using PHP and Memcached on my Social > Networking project, please correct me if I'm wrong : > > just like any other social networking site out there, mostly users just > 'read' database content, instead of 'writing' it. right? > > so, I have a plan to 'read' EVERYTHING from the database once the user > login (session created), such as : number of friends, birth date, today > friend's post, etc then store it into Memcached server. > > unless the user logged out or click 'yesterday friend's post', user won't > read the database again but read all the data from Memcached. > > maybe it will act like Gmail, user will see loading bar when they login > into their account. but once they have it, everything runs faster. > > is this possible thing to do with Memcached? >
