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.

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

Functions

• Syntax
• Arguments
• Variables
• References
• Returns
• Variable Scope

Arrays

• Enumerated Arrays
• Associative Arrays
• Array Iteration
• Multi-Dimensional Arrays
• Array Functions
• SPL

Object Oriented Programming

• Instantiation
• Modifiers/Inheritance
• Interfaces
• Exceptions
• Static Methods & Properties
• Autoload
• Reflection
• Type Hinting
• Class Constants

Security

• Configuration
• Session Security
• Cross-Site Scripting
• Cross-Site Request Forgeries
• SQL Injection
• Remote Code Injection
• Email Injection
• Filter Input
• Escape Output

XML and Web Services

• XML Basics
• SimpleXML
• XML Extension
• Xpath
• Webservices Basics
• SOAP
• REST

Strings and Patterns

• Quoting
• Matching
• Extracting
• Searching
• Replacing
• Formatting
• PCRE

Databases and SQL

• SQL
• Joins
• Analyzing Queries
• Prepared Statements
• Transactions

Web Features

• Sessions
• Forms
• GET and POST data
• Cookies
• HTTP Headers

Streams and Network Programming

• Files
• Reading
• Writing
• File System Functions
• Streams

PHP 4/5 Differences

• Object Orientation
• E_STRICT
• References vs. Object Handles

Design and Theory

• IDesign Patterns
• Code Reuse
• OOP Theory

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