PHP 7 Zend Certification Study Guide

Improve your programming knowledge and become Zend Certified. This book closely follows the ZCE2017-PHP exam syllabus and adds important details that help candidates to prepare for the test. Zend Certification is an industry recognized standard for PHP engineers. It is very difficult to pass the examination without extensive preparation. Unlike other books on PHP, this book is very focused on reaching industry standards.The Zend examination syllabus is comprised of three focus areas and a number of additional topics. This book explains the structure of the examination and then addresses each of the topics for PHP 7. A short quiz follows each chapter to help identify gaps in your knowledge. PHP 7 Zend Certification Study Guide also contains a practice test containing 70 questions from the entire syllabus to use when reviewing for your exams. The book provides original code examples throughout and every php featured is explained clearly with examples and uses an efficient way to describe the most important details of the particular feature.

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Andrew Beak is a cloud software architect working for a leading IPTV tech company in Cambridge, UK. He has 7 years of experience with the PHP language, with more than half of that time being in senior roles. During his time in the industry Beak has worked on applications for large financial institutions, dynamic startups, payment processors, as well as a slew of smaller web applications.

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Introduction. The Zend Certification Syllabus
A basic introduction to the latest syllabus of the ZCE2017 exam and analyze the topics of the exam. IT will also talk about choosing the correct strategy.
1. Syntax
The chapter takes a look at the general syntax used in PHP programming.

Inserting PHP into web pages
Language Constructs
Comments
Representing numbersVariables
Operators
Control Structures
ErrorsConfiguration
Performance

2. Functions

Functions are packages of code that can be used to execute a sequence of instructions. Any valid code can be used inside a function, including calls to other functions and classes. Topics covered here are:

Arguments
References
Variable Functions
Returns
Variable Scope
Callables, Lambdas, and closures

3. Strings and Patterns**They are a series of bytes and do not contain any information about how those bytes should be translated to characters. Topics covered:

Declaring Strings
Referencing characters in strings
PHP and multibyte strings
Matching Strings
Extracting strings
Searching Strings
Replacing strings
Formatting Strings
Formatting Numbers
String Patterns Regular Expressions

4. Arrays

Here we will take a look at a number of array functions offered in PHP. Topics covered will be:
Declaring and referencing arrays
Array Operators
Quirks of PHP array keys
Filling up arrays
Push, pop, shift, and unshift
Comparing Arrays
Combining Arrays
Iterating through arrays
Sorting Arrays

**5. Object Orientated PHP

Object Orientated code runs slower than procedural code but makes it easier to model and manipulate complex data structures. Topics will be:

Declaring Classes and Instantiating Objects
Visibility or Access Modifiers
Instance Properties and Methods
Static Methods and Properties
Working with Objects
Constructors and Destructors
Inheritance
Interfaces
Exceptions
Reflection
Type Hinting
Class Constants
Late Static Binding
Magic (*) MethodsStandard PHP Library (SPL)
Generators
Traits

6. Security

This is one of the key topics of the exam. The chapter will provide you a strategy to take up for securing your applications and servers.
Configuration
Session Security
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