Looking for a good php test

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smworks
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Looking for a good php test

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Hello,

(If this is a wrong thread for my topic, apologies, and feel free to route my post to the right section)

In order to assess the knowledge of a group of people (quite numerous!), I am looking for an exhaustive PHP test (question/answers). Ideally I am interested to have the questions covering all aspects (language/syntax/db/...)

Can anyone help me with this ? Or maybe you have any good ideas from where I can get such a test? 8O

Thanks!
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Re: Looking for a good php test

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smworks wrote:I am looking for an exhaustive PHP test (question/answers)
I doubt you'll find one; i would say that not a lot of people knows everything about php so an exhaustive test will be hard to find plus take quite a while to compile.

Take a look at the PHP Manual http://php.net/docs.php; it contains basic information on how to use php plus all the syntax.

If you are still looking for tests, enter 'php tests' into your search engine. I would guess the ZEND certification is a good test to take; personally i would not recommend the w3schools one, bad reputation and all that :)
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Re: Looking for a good php test

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social_experiment wrote:personally i would not recommend the w3schools one, bad reputation and all that :)
I took that for kicks a few months ago. As surprising as it is, they got all 20 questions right. But it's certainly not very comprehensive. +1 to the whole "good luck finding one": besides certifications (which I've no experience with) there aren't really any great online tests out there.
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requinix wrote:there aren't really any great online tests out there.
My thinking for this is: to learn syntax isn't really an issue; you can do it like a parrot, memorize word-for-word but that would only make you very good at remembering things not necessarily a good programmer; a good programmer knows more than the syntax; more familiar with the how-to's of programming
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