Zend PHP 5 Certification

Two years after launching the industry standard for PHP Certifications, Zend has once again teamed with a group of leading PHP experts to bring you the “Zend PHP 5 Certification” exam. The new certification exam has been completely rewritten, and is a completely new exam, not just an "upgrade" of the previous version.

The exam is created by an Advisory Board made up of thought leaders in the PHP community. Because the exam is created with specific skills, knowledge and competencies that are matched to real-world job functions, Zend Certifications provide a measure of technical distinction that employers use to evaluate prospective employees.

Please refer to the Certification FAQs for answers to some commonly asked questions.

Exam Information

PHP Basics

Syntax
Operators
Variables
Constants
Control Structures
Language Constructs and Functions

Object Oriented Programming

Instantiation
Modifiers/Inheritance
Interfaces
Exceptions
Static Methods & Properties
Autoload
Reflection
Type Hinting
Class Constants

PHP 4/5 Differences

Object Orientation
E_STRICT
References vs. Object Handles

Streams and Network Programming

Files
Reading
Writing
File System Functions
Streams

Security

Configuration
Session Security
Cross-Site Scripting
Cross-Site Request Forgeries
SQL Injection
Remote Code Injection
Email Injection
Filter Input
Escape Output

Functions

Syntax
Arguments
Variables
References
Returns
Variable Scope

Databases and SQL

SQL
Joins
Analyzing Queries
Prepared Statements
Transactions

Strings and Patterns

Quoting
Matching
Extracting
Searching
Replacing
Formatting
PCRE

Arrays

Enumerated Arrays
Associative Arrays
Array Iteration
Multi-Dimensional Arrays
Array Functions
SPL

XML and Web Services

XML Basics
SimpleXML
XML Extension
Xpath
Webservices Basics
SOAP
REST

Web Features

Sessions
Forms
GET and POST data
Cookies
HTTP Headers

Design and Theory

Design Patterns
Code Reuse
OOP Theory

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