ZCE
11 months ago
In the next 2 months I have to purchase and learn the ZCE manuals and write the final exam
How to become a Zend Certified Engineer
It made me
FINALLY 
"ahhh"
How I did it: know your php.ini directives, their heavy on OOP and don't be surprised if they expect you to know what a hex value or the value of a bitwise operations. Typing in function names like setrawcookie... you'll be confused if its rawsetcookie setcookieraw things like that are the most difficult. Just study study study, most importantly use the manual.
Lessons & tips: Don't underestimate this test, i failed on my first try
Resources: Read, this, this, this and a couple of other things
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its not easy :(
11 months ago
I gave it a go and it wasn’t easy… i need to go into more indepth self disciplined periodic study and re-take the test one more time
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12 months ago
the hardest part about any task for me, is starting.Previously, I went through half of the chapters in the study guide but had to stop due to my wedding preparations. Now, Im back on track: Read the ‘PHP Basics’ chapter last night.
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Sit for the exam on 1st Jan, 2009.
12 months ago
This is my only goal and most important goal at the moment.
Definately worth doing
2 years ago
I passed the PHP5 certification a couple of weeks ago after Engine (www.enginecreative.co.uk) kindly sponsored me. It was more of a refresher for me, though the XML chapters have been extremely useful since. I previously hadn’t really touched PHP’s DomDocument object or SimpleXML.
It’s definately worth doing, the exam itself isn’t that hard. It’s more of a memory test. The study will however give you a concrete foundation to build upon. By this I mean, if you ever suffer the “is this the best way” syndrome (like I do) you’ll always have something to fall back on.
As a heads up for the exam, you’ll find a lot of the questions are trick questions. Don’t take any of them at face value. There are often slight syntax errors in the examples which can be tricky to spot!
