Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide Published!
Today, php|architect has released the latest in their line of nanobooks: php|architect’s Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide. Writing along with Davey Shafik, I’m proud to have been a part of this project. It was hard work, and Davey had to step in on more than one occasion to save my rear-end, but I think, in the end, all worked out well, and I can honestly say that the final product is more than simply a study guide for the Zend PHP 5 Certification Exam. In fact, it is an essential guide to PHP 5 in general.
php|architect’s Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide covers topics ranging from the basics of PHP to object-oriented programming to databases to Web services, and it does so all under the banner of PHP 5. If you want a general primer on PHP 5, then this book is for you. If you want to study for the Zend PHP 5 Certification Exam, then even better; this book is especially for you.
Coinciding with the release of the book is the announcment of a competition in which the grand prize winner will receive a Zend Studio Professional license, a voucher for the Zend PHP 5 Certification Exam, one year’s subscription to php|architect, and a signed copy of php|architect’s Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide.
To find out more about the competition, the book, the authors, and to read a sample chapter, check out the book’s official Web site at zceguide.com. And don’t forget to buy the book!
Finally, since I’m often asked, my contribution to this book included the chapters Databases and SQL, XML and Web Services, and Security.
5 Comments
Nice. I own several NanoBooks, and I believe I'll add this to my library.
congratulations, but ... why did you write this before the other one?
It is nice, and will be a good reference for those who prepare to conquer the everest, PHP exam.
i bought this book and i studied it completely. After 1 week i tried to do a training exam.... uhm more than 50% of exam question wasn't arguments covered in this book.
So i think that this's a god book ...but not so usefull for certification exam.
Here an example of question to witch i cannot find solution in this book :
What should be replaced in the string ??????? below to open the archive myarchive.gz located in the document root of the www.example.com server and decompress it?
I would agree with Ariok. The book itself doesn't cover everything that is in the exam, but the book is helpful in the areas that it does cover.