I have 2 Symfony applications (1 using 1.2.x, another using 1.4.x and both using Propel) that need to share some specific session information. Although I have no experience with memcached, my sense--after some reading--is that it may be able to serve as an external (FAST) repository that each app could read and write to. Unfortunately, I can't find much information about how to use it with Symfony in any capacity, much less in the quasi-cache, quasi-messaging server I'm envisioning.

My questions, I suppose, are:

• Am I mistaken in believing that memcached be used in this manner and access by multiple systems?
• How can I configure Symfony to access a memcached repository?

Thanks.