moving some laravel classes around, switching alias to reflect changes. added some factories. removed system ioc container config file.

laravel/memcached.php

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+<?php namespace Laravel;
+
+class Memcached {
+
+	/**
+	 * The Memcached connection instance.
+	 *
+	 * @var Memcache
+	 */
+	protected static $instance;
+
+	/**
+	 * Get the Memcached connection instance.
+	 *
+	 * This connection will be managed as a singleton instance so that only
+	 * one connection to the Memcached severs will be established.
+	 *
+	 * @return Memcache
+	 */
+	public static function instance()
+	{
+		if (is_null(static::$instance))
+		{
+			static::$instance = static::connect(Config::get('cache.memcached'));
+		}
+
+		return static::$instance;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Create a new Memcached connection instance.
+	 *
+	 * The configuration array passed to this method should be an array of
+	 * server hosts / ports, like those defined in the cache configuration
+	 * file.
+	 *
+	 * <code>
+	 *		// Create a new localhost Memcached connection instance.
+	 *		$memcache = Memcached::connect(array('host' => '127.0.0.1', 'port' => 11211));
+	 * </code>
+	 *
+	 * @param  array     $servers
+	 * @return Memcache
+	 */
+	public static function connect($servers)
+	{
+		$memcache = new \Memcache;
+
+		foreach ($servers as $server)
+		{
+			$memcache->addServer($server['host'], $server['port'], true, $server['weight']);
+		}
+
+		if ($memcache->getVersion() === false)
+		{
+			throw new \Exception('Could not establish memcached connection. Please verify your configuration.');
+		}
+
+		return $memcache;
+	}
+
+}