Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE) Study Guide Links

Since I will be taking the ZCE exam in four days, I figured I’d post a study guide for the world while doing last minute studying. Enjoy!

PHP Basics

• Syntax | WikiPedia
• Operators | W3Schools
• Variables | Further Reading
• Constants | Official Reading
• Control Structures | Official Reading
• Language Constructs and Functions | Further Reading

Object Oriented Programming

• Instantiation – $classInstance = New classname; Not sure what else there is to it.
• Modifiers/Inheritance | Renowned Media
• Interfaces | Renowned Media
• Exceptions | Official Reading
• Static Methods & Properties | Official Reading
• Autoload | Official Reading
• Reflection | Further Reading
• Type Hinting | Official Reading
• Class Constants | Official Reading

PHP 4/5 Differences

• Object Orientation
• E_STRICT – In PHP 5 a new error level E_STRICT is available. As E_STRICT is not included within E_ALL you have to explicitly enable this kind of error level. Enabling E_STRICT during development has some benefits. STRICT messages will help you to use the latest and greatest suggested method of coding, for example warn you about using deprecated functions.
• References vs. Object Handles | Further Reading

Streams and Network Programming

• Files | Official Reading
• Reading | Official Reading
• Writing | Official Reading
• File System Functions – chmod(), stat(), chown(), chgrp(), fileperms(), is_readable(), is_writable(), unlink(), touch()
• Streams | Official Reading

Security

• Configuration | Further Reading
• Session Security | PHP Security Consortium
• Cross-Site Scripting | PHP Security Consortium
• Cross-Site Request Forgeries | PHP Security Consortium
• SQL Injection | PHP Security Consortium
• Remote Code Injection | WikiPedia
• Email Injection | Further Reading
• Filter Input | W3Schools Reading
• Escape Output | Official Reading

Functions

• Syntax | W3Schools Reading
• Arguments | Official Reading
• Variables | Official Reading
• References | Further Reading
• Returns | Official Reading
• Variable Scope | Official Reading

Databases and SQL

• SQL | Further Reading
• Joins | Further Reading
• Analyzing Queries
• Prepared Statements | Official Reading
• Transactions | Further Reading

Strings and Patterns

• Quoting | Further Reading
• Matching | Official Reading
• Extracting | Official Reading
• Searching | Official Reading
• Replacing | preg_replace() | str_replace()
• Formatting | Official Reading
• PCRE | Official Reading

Arrays

• Enumerated Arrays | Official Reading
• Associative Arrays | Further Reading
• Array Iteration | Official Reading
• Multi-Dimensional Arrays | Further Reading
• Array Functions | W3Schools Reading
• SPL | Further Reading

XML and Web Services

• XML Basics | Further Reading
• SimpleXML | W3Schools Reading
• XML Extension | Official Reading
• Xpath | Further Reading
• Webservices Basics | Further Reading
• SOAP | Further Reading
• REST | Further Reading

Web Features

• Sessions | W3Schools Reading
• Forms | W3Schools Reading
• GET and POST data | Further Reading
• Cookies | Official Reading
• HTTP Headers | Official Reading

Design and Theory

• Design Patterns | Further Reading
• Code Reuse | WikiPedia
• OOP Theory | WikiPedia