Test Prep for the PHP Certification Exam

"Our Classic Test Prep course now in a new format"

This Test Prep: Zend PHP 5.3 Certification course prepares experienced PHP programmers for the challenge of passing the PHP 5.3 certification exam and achieving the status of Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE).

This is a test preparation and PHP review course – it does not teach PHP. The content discusses important information about the exam itself and strategies for answering the exam questions, in addition to providing an in-depth review of the ten certification topic areas. Participants are continually challenged to test their knowledge with focused quizzes. The course moves at a fast pace, and assumes at least an intermediate skill level in programming within PHP.

Topics Include
• PHP Certification: Why Certification; Exam Essentials; Questions and Strategies; Certification Topic Areas
• PHP Basics: Syntax, Operators, Variables, Constants, Control Structures, Language Constructs and Functions, Constants, Namespaces, Extensions, Constants, Config, Performance/bytecode caching
• Functions: Syntax, Arguments, Variables, References, Returns, Variable Scope, Anonymous Functions, closures
• Data Formats & Types: XML Basics, SimpleXML, XML Extension, Xpath, Webservices Basics, SOAP, REST, JSON & AJAX, DateTime, DOMDocument
• Web Features: Sessions, Forms, GET and POST data, Cookies, HTTP Headers, HTTP Authentication
• OOP: 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
• Security: 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: Quoting, Matching, Extracting, Searching, Replacing, Formatting, PCRE, HEREDOC and NOWDOC, Encodings
• Databases: SQL, Joins, Analyzing Queries, Prepared Statements, Transactions, PDO
• Arrays: Enumerated Arrays, Associative Arrays, Array Iteration, Multi-Dimensional Arrays, Array Functions, SPL, Objects as arrays
• I/O: Files, Reading, Writing, File System Functions, Streams, Contexts