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Preparing for PHP ZCE exam : Chapter #8 Databases

Apr

2012

SQL This chapter focuses on some of the topics related with databases. For example SQL is one of the key points of this part. This should not be an issue for people that want to pass the exam because the questions mainly consist of standard SQL queries like SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE. One thing that ...

Preparing for PHP ZCE exam : Chapter #7 OOP

Mar

2012

Object Oriented Programming Most of the rules mentioned in this chapter apply to a great majority of programming languages, so assuming you have some experience with software this should be just a good reminder. Although this chapter has some general ideas of programming there are some PHP specific issues here and there. Take a good ...

Preparing for PHP ZCE exam : Chapter #6 Functions

Mar

2012

This is probably one of the easiest and shortest topics on the exam. But use it as your advantage – this is a great way to earn some easy points to help you pass the exam. If you are a PHP developer that considers taking ZCE exam I suppose you already know the subject by ...

Preparing for PHP ZCE exam : Chapter #5 Input & Output

Mar

2012

Reading and Writting One of the key parts of this chapters is for you to focus on all the file_* and f* functions, which are great tools for file handling. All of them can be found here. So start off with the easy ones (file_*), which work with a filename. Then go to the ones ...

Preparing for PHP ZCE exam : Chapter #4 Arrays

Mar

2012

Basics Arrays are probably the strongest and best tool in PHP for data manipulation. There are dozens of specially prepared functions just for handling arrays. I assume that you are already well familiarized with the basics of creating, adressing, splitting and looping through arrays. Though these are very simple points of the exam, try to ...

Preparing for PHP ZCE exam : Chapter #3 Strings

Feb

2012

String manipulation Besides the real basics of strings in PHP (like f.e. escaping, heredoc syntax, determining the length) you should focus on some of the essential tools that PHP provides for string manipulation. First of all try to focus on comparing, searching and replacing strings. Try to memorize as many function from PHP manual as ...

Preparing for PHP ZCE exam : Chapter #2 Data Types and Formats

Feb

2012

This is the first part of the exam on which we can actually focus some more. There are some points here that tend to be troublesome or tricky like f.e. xpath queries. From my experience this chapter describes some crucial tools for a PHP developer that make life easier. Besides data formats, the concept of ...

Preparing for PHP ZCE exam : Chapter #1 Basics

Feb

2012

Most of the people who will want to take this exam will probably know a thing or two about PHP. Major part of this exam section is something that goes without saying. As a developer you should be familiar with the language syntax and already have written a fair amount of PHP code.

Preparing for PHP ZCE exam : Chapter #0 Introduction 2

Feb

2012

I’m currently in the process of preparing for my ZCE exam for PHP. Some time ago I had an idea to turn this whole learning process into a set of articles/blog posts. This could help me to sum up some keynotes about some of the main points of the exam. Hopefully this would help someone ...

Mocknity – Auto Mocking Container For Unity

May

2011

Mocknity is an extension for Microsoft’s Dependency Injection Container – Unity, which turns the Patterns & Practices Container into an Auto Mocking Container. Mocknity uses Rhino Mocks for creation of mock objects.