Zend PHP Certification blog

ReBlogged: PHP Job Market Webcast

2005-08-22T09:54:00.000+03:00

Chris Shiflett: PHP Job Market Webcast: "PHP Job Market Webcast"

A webcast called The PHP Job Market is being offered this Wednesday by Zend. It focuses on the Zend Certification (it's one of the "ZCE Month" promotions), and it features guests that provide a few different perspectives. I'll be there to speak about my role on the Zend Advisory Board as an SME (fancy new acronym I learned that stands for subject matter expert). Other guests include a software architect and a director of open source recruiting. The webcast is hosted by PHP's own Marcus Whitney (of Pro PHP Podcast fame).

My involvement in the creation of the Zend Certification is completely independent of Zend, and I think this has been a healthy approach. I can appreciate that commercial entities have to financially justify their efforts, and I'm glad Zend recognizes the value in helping to legitimize PHP in the eyes of big business decision makers. Robert Peake has been bold enough to state:

I believe the existence of the Zend Certified Engineer Program may do more to further PHP in the enterprise than the release of PHP 5.

I initially had my own doubts about the success of a PHP certification, and I bet I wasn't alone - I think many of us in the open source community are quick to scoff such things. If you're still having doubts, I invite you to sign up for the webcast and listen to what the other guests have to say. You might be surprised.

:ZCE: 10 tips that every PHP newbie should know

2005-08-17T10:29:00.000+03:00

Jeffery Vaska, writing a cool series about 10 Tips that every php newbie should know about it...
Jeffery says I wish I had known these 10 tips the day I started working with PHP. Instead of learning them through painstaking process, I could have been on my way to becoming a PHP programmer even sooner! This article is presented in two parts and is intended for folks who are new to PHP.

10 tips that every php newbie should know (Part one)
10 tips that every php newbie should know (Part two)

Celebrating the 1-year annevirsary of ZCE

2005-08-02T10:16:00.000+03:00

Happy ZCE day! well its, not independent day, its just the 1-year annevirsary of Zend certification
Read more at Zend.com

:ZCE: The PHP Search Engine

2005-07-21T14:30:00.000+03:00

PHP Search engine? ever thought it would exists?
Marco tabini PHP|arch publisher is real evil and he admit it! how honest and it seems we have to agree with him.

Macro Tabini has just announce the bron of PHP Search Engine, which will help PHP programmers to find more accurate information about PHP related articles, blogs, news, etc..

I'm sure this will help programmers who's preparing for ZCE.

PHP Search Engine site

read more at Marco tabini blog

:ZCE: Places to get practice PHP tests

2005-07-09T12:22:00.000+03:00

Here are some locations you can test your PHP skills before taking the final zend exam...

http://expertrating.com/ ($10)

http://brainbench.com/ ($50)

Hudzilla.org (FREE)

Zend (FREE)

BlueShoes (FREE)

:ZCE: Short form of if-statement

2005-07-07T10:21:00.000+03:00

Someone explain this to me
<?php

$n = 15;

$a = ($n % 2 ? 'odd number' : 'even number');

echo $a;

?>

Ok, I can understand its if statement,
eval ? DO_IF_TRUE : DO_IF_FALSE;

that was for today

:ZCE: Some links for light reading

2005-07-02T16:19:00.000+03:00

Including files:
include,
include_once,
require,
require_once,
include_path
Including other files

PHP data types
Language types

:43things: Who want to become Zend Certified Engineer

2005-06-23T17:25:00.000+03:00

Just added "Become a zend certified engineer" to my 43 things to do
http://www.43things.com/things/view/143497

:ZCE: Programming ABC

2005-06-22T23:48:00.000+03:00

Little programming, little power;
Some programming, some power;
Much programming, much power!

:ZCE: Speciall offer

2005-06-21T17:50:00.000+03:00

What a great day for Jordan php community, I have got a great offer from Zend Technologies for Jordan php Community

Offer One:
PHP Certification Exam voucher $125 instead of $200.

Offer Two:
PHP Certification Exam voucher + PHP Certification Guide + PHP Practice book = $150

if you are interested contact me, contact[at]jadmadi[dot]net

NOTE:
This offer comes directly from Zend technologies http://zend.com/ and I'm just forwarding it.
I am NOT Zend personnel or affiliate with Zend technilogies.

:ZCE: exam preparation

2005-06-11T14:15:00.000+03:00

:ZCE: Learning A, B, C

2005-06-11T01:01:00.000+03:00

As I mentioned in my last post, I will be learning from scratch, and today I found two great articles about Learning, both are not technical articles at all, just a How-to learn/read.

Learning PHP Using the DIY Method
And
Using the Manual at PHP.net

:ZCE: Terms you will need to understand

2005-06-09T23:20:00.000+03:00

As i'm trying to learn it again from scratch as a refreshment and more deeply understanding of language, so here is the terms to understand

Language and platform

Language construct

Data type

opening and closingt tags

Expression

Variable

Operation and operator precedence

Conditional structures

Iteration and Loops

Functions

Variable variables and Variable functions

:Voucher: Zend PHP Certification Voucher Information

2005-06-09T14:26:00.000+03:00

Okay, I just got my Voucher, and thats a big Step
now i'm thinking for focus on the exam and make it within a month or as a MAX 45 days

Hello Jad Madi,

Thank you for purchasing Zend PHP Certification at Zend.com!

Your voucher information is:
x0x0x0x0x

The next step is to schedule your exam. Go to , create an
account, and select your preferred testing center, date, and time. On the
payment page enter your voucher information.

Please keep this email for future reference. You may also access your
voucher information through your Pickup Depot found at:

For help, email us at:

Good Luck!

Team Zend

:ZCE: I decided to do it

2005-06-03T15:43:00.000+03:00

Hello and welcome to Zend PHP certification blog!!

Thanks for Zend for making PHP Cert possible, actually as a Web developer trying to compete in Web development field, Zend php Certification is a Must, and thats what I'm working on.

This blog meant to be daily dairy of ZCE candinate, to share experience with others, I will be posting a weekly update and might be daily *Depends on my laziness* about every topic I pass reading and practicing it, and every topic I stuck at.

That was for today, see ya tomorrow