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Zend PHP 5 Certification

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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
Resources
DOCUMENTATION

Free PHP 5.3 Study Guide more»

WEBINAR

Everything you need to know about the Certification more»

Customer Quote

   The ZCE certification ensures that our clients and prospects have access to first-class software development as standard, whilst allowing Magma Digital Ltd to fulfil our quality assurance programme. We like to support and encourage our developers to continue in professional and personal development by undertaking the ZCE exam.   

Jeremy CoatesManaging Director, Magma Digital

   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.   

Barry HughesFreshly Baked Websites

   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!   

Ricard ClauPHP Developer and ZCE

    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   

Dmitry KarpovichCEO, Oxagile