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Looking for a good php test
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:18 pm
by smworks
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?
Thanks!
Don
Re: Looking for a good php test
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 2:51 am
by social_experiment
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

Re: Looking for a good php test
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 3:36 am
by requinix
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.
Re: Looking for a good php test
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 4:42 am
by social_experiment
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