Zend Certification Study Guide

php|architect's Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide (2nd edition) provides the most comprehensive and thorough preparation tool for developers who wish to take the certification exam. It is written by PHP professionals and Zend Certified PHP 5 engineers, Davey Shafik and Ben Ramsey, and reviewed by core PHP developer Derick Rethans.

Study Guide Topics

• PHP Basics
• Functions
• Arrays
• Strings & Patterns (including regular expressions)
• Web programming
• Object-oriented programming
• Object-oriented design
• Database programming
• XML and web-services
• Security
• Streams and Network Programming
• Differences between PHP 4 and 5

New in the Second Edition

There are over 20 pages of new content, including coverage of the PDO and MySQL extensions, as well as numerous errata corrections throughout the book.