Zend PHP 5.3 Certification - Exam Information

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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.

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Exam Information

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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Resources

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Free PHP 5.3 Study Guide more»

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It's a fantastic test and just preparing for it is a great experience in reacquainting (or just plain acquainting) oneself with many aspects of the language.

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Since I got the certification, I have received interviews in some of the biggest PHP based companies in Barcelona and I now have job as a developer in one of the big online shops, so all the study was really worth it!

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The ZCE Certification demonstrates that the development team keeps in step with the latest PHP technology. And it helps to show our customers and prospects that we have highly qualified PHP developers where it matters most of all - their critical project

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Zend PHP 5.3 Certification - Exam Information

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