Memcached::get

(PECL memcached >= 0.1.0)

Memcached::getRetrieve an item

Description

public Memcached::get(string $key, ?callable $cache_cb = null, int $get_flags = 0): mixed

Memcached::get() returns the item that was previously stored under the key. If the item is found and the get_flags is given Memcached::GET_EXTENDED, it will also return the CAS token value for the item. See Memcached::cas() for how to use CAS tokens. Read-through caching callback may be specified via cache_cb parameter.

Parameters

key

The key of the item to retrieve.

cache_cb

Read-through caching callback or null.

get_flags

Flags to control the returned result. When Memcached::GET_EXTENDED is given, the function will also return the CAS token.

Return Values

Returns the value stored in the cache or false otherwise. If the get_flags is set to Memcached::GET_EXTENDED, an array containing the value and the CAS token is returned instead of only the value. The Memcached::getResultCode() will return Memcached::RES_NOTFOUND if the key does not exist.

Changelog

Version Description
PECL memcached 3.0.0 The &cas_token parameter was removed. Instead get_flags was added and when it is given the value of Memcached::GET_EXTENDED it will ensure the CAS token to be fetched.

Examples

Example #1 Memcached::get() example #1

<?php
$m
= new Memcached();
$m->addServer('localhost', 11211);

$m->set('foo', 100);
var_dump($m->get('foo'));
?>

The above example will output:

int(100)

Example #2 Memcached::get() example #2

<?php
$m
= new Memcached();
$m->addServer('localhost', 11211);

if (!(
$ip = $m->get('ip_block'))) {
if (
$m->getResultCode() == Memcached::RES_NOTFOUND) {
$ip = array();
$m->set('ip_block', $ip);
} else {
/* log error */
/* ... */
}
}
?>

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User Contributed Notes 4 notes

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letynsoft at gmail dot com
7 years ago
As of some version of php7 (i was not able to determine which exactly).
The $cas_token is no longer valid argument. It has been removed in favor of flags argument, as it appears to be causing issues when subclassing the Memcached class.

See https://github.com/php-memcached-dev/php-memcached/pull/214 for more details.

Basically you need to
<?php
function memcacheGet($key, $cb = null, &$cas = null) {
$m = memcacheGetObject();
if(empty(
$m))
return
false;
if(
defined('Memcached::GET_EXTENDED')) {
//Incompatible change in php7, took me 2 hours to figure this out, grrr
$_o = $m->get($key, $cb, Memcached::GET_EXTENDED);
$o = $_o['value'];
$cas = $_o['cas'];
} else {
$o = $m->get($key, $cb, $cas);
}
return
$o;
}
?>
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miha at hribar dot info
15 years ago
This method also returns false in case you set the value to false, so in order to have a proper fault mechanism in place you need to check the result code to be certain that a key really does not exist in memcached.

<?php
$Memcached
= new Memcached();
$Memcached->addServer('localhost', 11211);
$Memcached->set('key', false);
var_dump($Memcached->get('key')); // boolean false
var_dump($Memcached->getResultCode()); // int 0 which is Memcached::RES_SUCCESS
?>

Or just make sure the values are not false :)
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Anonymous
44 minutes ago
For more than one flag use bitwise or

Memcached::GET_EXTENDED | Memcached::GET_PRESERVE_ORDER
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denis_truffaut[A-T]hotmail[D-O-T]com
13 years ago
Note that this function can return NULL as FALSE, so don't make checks with === FALSE as with the old Memcache class, because it won't work. :O

Use the not (!) operator and check the result code with getResultCode() as mentioned in the documentation :)
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