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PHP Certification

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:07 pm
by xtiano77
I am considering taking the PHP Certification exam. However, before I purchase the "php|architect's Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide", I was hoping that some of you could give me some suggestions as to which book[s] would be a good all encompassing reference to the PHP which will help me with the study guide and later the test. My ultimate goal is to get the certification and later open a small web design/development business that can create sites such as this one if needed. Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

P.S.

I purchased the books listed below, and although I think I have learned a lot from them, I can't help but to feel a bit intimidated by the list of subjects covered in the certification exam.

* PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide
* PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Edition)

Re: PHP Certification

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:30 pm
by josh
When I bought it, it did change the way the way I thought about PHP. Its not too long of a read and I'd recommend it for anyone wether they're considering the test or not. One thing though is hold off on purchasing the actual test voucher, theyre only good for a year and they dont make it very obvious.

After reading the book I felt like I "thought more like a compiler" in terms of wierd things you run into. Like the other day non ASCII text made its way into a .csv file that made its way into an array index... when I used print_r or var_dump I saw 2 array entries for what appeared to be the same array key, impossible I though, but if you knew what character set the Zend engine used to represent those array keys in memory, and other little non-obvious facts about the engine, you can save yourself time with potentially messy bugs

Other things is like 4 == '4test' and stuff like that, or using count() on non-arrays, etc..

Between the PHP one and the framework one I would recommend the framework one though. They actually upgraded my 2yr old PHP voucher for a framework voucher the other week, pretty nice of them

Re: PHP Certification

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:12 am
by rajeevbharti
josh wrote:When I bought it, it did change the way the way I thought about PHP. Its not too long of a read and I'd recommend it for anyone wether they're considering the test or not. One thing though is hold off on purchasing the actual test voucher, theyre only good for a year and they dont make it very obvious.

After reading the book I felt like I "thought more like a compiler" in terms of wierd things you run into. Like the other day non ASCII text made its way into a .csv file that made its way into an array index... when I used print_r or var_dump I saw 2 array entries for what appeared to be the same array key, impossible I though, but if you knew what character set the Zend engine used to represent those array keys in memory, and other little non-obvious facts about the engine, you can save yourself time with potentially messy bugs

Other things is like 4 == '4test' and stuff like that, or using count() on non-arrays, etc..

Between the PHP one and the framework one I would recommend the framework one though. They actually upgraded my 2yr old PHP voucher for a framework voucher the other week, pretty nice of them


hi i read your replay. we know about the book which help us to do well in certification.