The Rogue Wave Zend Certified PHP Engineer is an industry-wide standard that recognizes PHP expertise and is a measure of distinction that employers use to evaluate prospective employees. Join the thousands of PHP professionals who have received official certifications and be recognized for your PHP expertise. 

List of Exam Topics

PHP Basics

Functions

Data Format & Types

• Syntax

• Operators

• Variables

• Control Structures

• Language Constructs and Functions

• Namespaces 

• Extensions

• Config

• Performance/bytecode caching

• Arguments

• Variables

• References

• Returns

• Variable Scope

• Anonymous Functions, closures

• Type Declarations

• XML Basics

• SimpleXML

• XML Extension

• Webservices Basics

• SOAP

• JSON 

• DateTime 

• DOMDocument

Web Features

Object Oriented Programming

Security

• Sessions

• Forms

• GET and POST data

• Cookies

• HTTP Headers

• HTTP Authentication

• HTTP Status Codes 

I/O

• Files

• Reading

• Writing

• File System Functions

• Streams

• Contexts

• Instantiation

• Modifiers/Inheritance

• Interfaces

• Return Types

• Autoload

• Reflection

• Type Hinting

• Class Constants

• Late Static Binding

• Magic (_*) Methods

• Instance Methods & Properties

• SPL

• Traits 

• 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 

Strings & Patterns

Databases & SQL

Arrays

• Quoting

• Matching

• Extracting

• Searching

• Replacing

• Formatting

• PCRE

• NOWDOC

• Encodings

• SQL

• Joins

• Prepared Statements

• Transactions

• PDO

• Associative Arrays

• Array Iteration

• Array Functions

• SPL, Objects as arrays 

• Casting