ZCE Preparing

List of Exam Topics

Actual list of topics: http://www.zend.com/en/services/certification/php-certification

Repository for learning PHP deeply, test langugage features and make notes

The project has CLI. To run:

$ php zce-preparing-cli.php

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