Zend PHP 5.3 Certification

In June of 2009, i have participated in the "PHP Summer School Advanced Topics". At the end of these sessions it was offerd me a exam voucher for the "Zend PHP Certification", witch represented a nice opportunity to have the PHP certification. At the time i didn't knew but the exam demands very hight PHP knowlege, even for a full time PHP developer there are many topics to be considered.

To start my study, i decided to buy the "php|architect's certification guide", a good manual to prepare the exam, and also to have it close when working. I have read the manual and solved all exercises from "The Zend PHP Certification Practice Text Book" and then made a big pause to start my "MOSS" studies. Suddenly, i had one week to prepare the exam, because php is allways rolling, i the PHP5 certification was now history and i was forced to go on PHP 5.3!

 After the exam, i got the impression that PHP 5.3 Certification is more about real world tasks, so i am glad that i accidentally took it.

Exam Covers:

PHP Basics	Functions	Data Format & Types
Syntax Operators Variables Constants Control Structures Language Constructs and Functions Namespaces Extensions Config Performance/bytecode caching	Syntax Arguments Variables References Returns Variable Scope Anonymous Functions, closures	XML Basics SimpleXML XML Extension Xpath Webservices Basics SOAP REST JSON & AJAX DateTime DOMDocument

Web Features	Object Oriented Programming	Security
Sessions Forms GET and POST data Cookies HTTP Headers HTTP Authentication I/O Files Reading Writing File System Functions Streams Contexts	Instantiation Modifiers/Inheritance Interfaces Exceptions Static Methods & Properties Autoload Reflection Type Hinting Class Constants Late Static Binding Magic (_*) Methods Instance Methods & Properties Class Definition SPL	Configuration Session Security Cross-Site Scripting Cross-Site Request Forgeries SQL Injection Remote Code Injection Email Injection Filter Input Escape Output Encryption, Hashing algorithms File uploads Data storage SSL

Strings & Patterns	Databases	Arrays
Quoting Matching Extracting Searching Replacing Formatting PCRE HEREDOC and NOWDOC Encodings	SQL Joins Analyzing Queries Prepared Statements Transactions PDO	Enumerated Arrays Associative Arrays Array Iteration Multi-Dimensional Arrays Array Functions SPL, Objects as arrays

 

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