PHP 5.4 & Laravel Class 'Memcached' not found

Question

I realize there are about 10 of these questions out there but none fit me completely.

Steps completed:

1. Installed memcache
2. installed php memcac

Answer 1

Memcache and Memcached are two different PHP extensions. Memcache is the older deprecated one. Memcached is a much newer and fully supported extension.

Check out http://pecl.php.net/package/memcached

You may need to also install libmemcached https://launchpad.net/libmemcached/+download