memcached using php and perl

Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering.
The system uses a client–server architecture. The servers maintain a key–value associative array; the clients populate this array and query it. Keys are up to 250 bytes long and values can be at most 1 megabyte in size.
Clients use client side libraries to contact the servers which, by default, expose their service at port 11211. Each client knows all servers; the servers do not communicate with each other. If a client wishes to set or read the value corresponding to a certain key, the client's library first computes a hash of the key to determine the server that will be used. Then it contacts that server. The server will compute a second hash of the key to determine where to store or read the corresponding value.
Perl script for fetching a Memcached result.

use Cache::Memcached;
use Digest::MD5;
use Digest::MD5 qw(md5 md5_hex md5_base64);
my $memcli = new Cache::Memcached {
    'servers' => [ "192.168.0.27:11211" ],
    'debug' => 0
};
my $serviceID=$ARGV[0];
print "Service ID__".$serviceID." **_\n";
my $perlKey='perl_'.$serviceID;
my $result = $memcli->get($perlKey);
#print "already : ___".$result."________\n";
if($result eq "")
{
#hit a php page to set memcache values if this key does not exist.
        use LWP::UserAgent;
        #my $serviceID = 12;
        my $url= "http://192.168.0.27/chargerequest/perlcache.php";
        my $ua       = LWP::UserAgent->new();
        my $response = $ua->post( $url, { 'id' => $serviceID } );
        my $content  = $response->decoded_content();
        $result = $memcli->get($perlKey);
}
else {
        print "\n cached result \n ".$result;
}

Now the php page

include("db.php");
$dbOBJ = new DB();
$conn = $dbOBJ->connectDB();
if ($conn){
$serviceid=$_REQUEST['id'];
$qry='select id, abc, def, ghi, jkl, mno, pqr from table where id='.$id; $memcache = new Memcache;
$memcache->connect('localhost', 11211) or die ("Could not connect");
$perlKey='perl_'.$serviceid;
$cache_result = array();
//$memcache->set($perlKey, $perlString, 0, 1);
$cache_result = $memcache->get($perlKey); // Memcached object
if($cache_result)
{
// Second User Request
echo "
caching
";
$dbOBJ->print_rr($cache_result);
$demos_result=$cache_result;
}
else
{
$curser = OCIParse($conn,$qry);
OCIExecute($curser);
OCIFetchInto($curser , $values);
$demos_result[]=$values; // Results storing in array
$memcache->set($key, $demos_result, 0, 100);
$val1=$demos_result[0][0];          
$val2=$demos_result[0][1];
$val3=$demos_result[0][2];        
$val4=$demos_result[0][3];        
$val5=$demos_result[0][4];          
$val6=$demos_result[0][5];
$perlString = $val1.','. $val2.','. $val3.','. $val4.','. $val5.','. $val6;
$memcache->set($perlKey, $perlString, 0, 10);
}
}
else
echo $errorMessage='Other error';
?>

Fetch files from remote server automatically in PHP using Curl

PHP provides multiple ways to download and upload files to remote servers, such as fopen, fsockopen, cURL library, and other methods. fopen is the simplest but not the best. A while ago I wrote a function to fetch remote file by using fsockopen. However, I found a lot of problems when I use it. Then I read the PHP Cookbook and decided to try cURL library. After I implemented it in the independent class, it works like a charm. The following is the class source code.

// I adopt cURL library to download files
// It is reliable and fast, less hassle than fopen/fsockopen etc.

// this following three lines include testing code
// $file = new Remotefile("http://downloads.pcworld.com/pub/new/patches___drivers/utilities/framxpro.zip");
// $file->save2file("");
class Remotefile
{
 // the url components
 private $url = "";
 // data get back from server
 private $header  = array();
 private $content = "";
 private $extension = "";

 function __construct($url)
 {
  $this->initialize($url);
 }

 private function curl_url()
 {
  $c = curl_init($this->url);
  curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
  curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
  $buffer = curl_exec($c);
  curl_close($c);

  // process data
  $rnrn = "\r\n\r\n";
  $pos = strpos($buffer,$rnrn);

  if($pos === false)
  {
   // string $rnrn NOT found in $buffer
    echo "Something is not correct!
";
  }
  else
  {
   // string $rnrn found in $buffer
   $this->content = substr($buffer, $pos+4);
   $header = substr($buffer, 0, $pos);
   $this->processHeader($header);
  }
 }

 private function initialize($url)
 {
  // initialize all variables
  $this->url = $url;
  // fetch the remote file
  $this->curl_url();
 }

 private function processHeader($header)
 {
  $lines = explode("\r\n", $header);
  $this->header["status"] = $lines[0];
  foreach($lines as $line)
  {
   $data = explode(": ",$line);
   if ($data[1] != "")
   {
    $this->header[$data[0]] = $data[1];
   }
//echo "$data[0] |===| $data[1]
";
  }
 }

 private function redirectedURL()
 {
  return $this->header["Location"];
 }

 private function getMIMEtype()
 {
  // check redirection url
  $rdurl = $this->redirectedURL();
  if ($rdurl)
  {
   $ext = ereg_replace("^.+\\.([^.]+)$", "\\1", $rdurl);
   $this->extension = $ext;
  }
  else
  {
   $mtype = $this->header["Content-Type"];
   $temps1 = split("/",$mtype);
   $temps2 = split(";",$temps1[1]);
   $ext1 = $temps2[0];
   $this->extension = $ext1;
   if (($temps1[0] == "application"))
   {
    $ext2 = ereg_replace("^.+\\.([^.]+)$", "\\1", $this->url);
    if ($ext2)
    {
     $this->extension = $ext2;
    }
   }
       }
       $this->extension = trim($this->extension);
//echo "file extension = ".$this->extension."
";
 }

 function getHeader()
 {
  return $this->header;
 }

 function getContent()
 {
  return $this->content;
 }

 function save2file($folder)
 {
  // write to file
  $this->getMIMEtype();
  $filename = date('YmdHis').".".$this->extension;
  $target_path = getcwd();
  if ($folder)
  {
   $target_path .= "/$folder";
  }
  $target_path .=  "/".$filename;
  $Handle = fopen($target_path, 'w');
  fwrite($Handle, $this->content);
  fclose($Handle);
  return $filename;
 }

}

?>

I adopt cURL library to download files. It is reliable and fast, less hassle than fopen/fsockopen etc. To use the above class, at Ubuntu yot have to install libcurl and php5-curl by the following command:

apt-get install curl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev php5-curl

After this is done, just restart apache2 server by

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart