zce-php-quiz

Zend PHP certification training quiz

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Quiz item format within XML file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<items>

  [...]

  <item>

    <question>What is the output?</question>
  
    <code>
      <![CDATA[
        <?php
        echo 'Hello World';
      ]]>
    </code>
  
    <answers>
      <answer>A warning</answer>
      <answer>A fatal error</answer>
      <answer correct="correct">Hello World</answer>
    </answers>
  
    <theory>"echo" command outputs text</theory>

    <reference>http://php.net/manual/en/function.echo.php</reference>
  
  </item>

  [...]
  
</items>

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Demo

1. start a local webserver:

   php -S localhost:8000

2. browse URL http://localhost:8000/demo

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List of Exam Topics

(from http://www.zend.com/en/services/certification/php-certification):

PHP Basics

• Syntax
• Operators
• Variables
• Control Structures
• Language Constructs and Functions
• Namespaces
• Extensions
• Config
• Performance/bytecode caching

Functions

• Arguments
• Variables
• References
• Returns
• Variable Scope
• Anonymous Functions, closures
• Type Declarations

Data Format & Types

• XML Basics
• SimpleXML
• XML Extension
• Webservices Basics
• SOAP
• JSON
• DateTime
• DOMDocument

Web Features

• Sessions
• Forms
• GET and POST data
• Cookies
• HTTP Headers
• HTTP Authentication
• HTTP Status Codes

Object Oriented Programming

• Instantiation
• Modifiers/Inheritance
• Interfaces
• Return Types
• Autoload
• Reflection
• Type Hinting
• Class Constants
• Late Static Binding
• Magic (_*) Methods
• Instance Methods & Properties
• SPL
• Traits

Security

• Configuration
• Session Security
• Cross-Site Scripting
• Cross-Site Request Forgeries
• SQL Injection
• Remote Code Injection
• Email Injection
• Filter Input
• Escape Output
• Encryption, Hashing algorithms
• File uploads
• PHP Configuration
• Password hashing API

I/O

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

Strings & Patterns

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

Databases & SQL

• SQL
• Joins
• Prepared Statements
• Transactions
• PDO

Arrays

• Associative Arrays
• Array Iteration
• Array Functions
• SPL, Objects as arrays
• Casting

Error Handling

• Handling Exceptions
• Errors
• Throwables