Object Oriented Programming is the norm in modern software programming. Sadly, prior PHP4, PHP lack a great OOP language support. PHP5 changes all that. That’s why the Exam has two topics especially regarding this area: the actual OOP feature in PHP5 and OOP design and theory. This post is a brief review on PHP5 OOP [...]

Due to the fact that many hosting providers and live web sites are still using PHP4, and this situation is likely remaining for some time; the PHP5 Certification Exam has a topic on the difference between PHP4 and PHP5. You should have very good knowing that PHP5 has great improvement on which subject as well [...]

Security is very important for any application, particularly for web application. So the exam requires you have at least a very well understanding how the security problems actually affect todays web applications innovation. You must know some common security issues, the security issues not just regarding PHP itself. Since PHP is an embedded language, you [...]

Although the GUIDE says the Exam is database neutral, but in fact, it is somewhat regarding the Mysql database. Anyway, you should have good understanding with the SQL, such as joins, indices, primary keys, multi query, ect. Regarding PHP, you should read something about the new mysqli extension as well as the PDO object.

Finally, we get into the WEB PROGRAMMING. This is what php was made for! This is a VERY VERY important aspect in the exam. Make sure you have understood how COOKIE, SESSION, HTTP headers, SUPER GLOBALS, etc works in PHP. Also, the exam requires you know some of the PHP configuration directive (in the php.ini [...]

Following previous review on Streams and Network, here is the XML and Web Service. This is more and more important area in php I think since most Web2.0 applications use XML and Web Service technology. Also, PHP5 comes a new XML extension, SimpleXML. The exam seems requires you know the difference between SAX (Simple API [...]

This post is a final review on Zend PHP5 Certification Exam of php’s Streams and Networks feature. Since for php, any file operations are also considered as stream manipulation, this post includes the well-known php file manipulation functions as well as some points on file system aspect. Streams functionality on networks, such as sockets also [...]

In this post, I list some of the aspects that you may need to refresh your memory on PHP5’s String and Regular Expressions feature. String and Regx are very important for any web development language, so you should have great grasp on them before you take the Exam. The funcitons listed here are no guarantee [...]

On 16th, December, 2007, I have passed the new Zend PHP 5 certification exam . Well, I feel the actual exam is very easy; it should not difficult for any php user who has certain level of php development experience. In this post, I will publish some information regarding how to prepare and attend [...]

I didn’t aware that the tags links on my blog are not working. In past few days, I got very sick, and didn’t check my online work very much; besides I just used the built-in tags feature comes with the WordPress, so I’d though there were should no problems on my blog. Until today