PHP Training

PHP Certification Bootcamp

If you have been using PHP for some time and just need a quick refresher of the fundamentals of PHP, or need to fill some knowledge gaps before attempting the PHP Certification from ZEND, then this course is for you.

It is a fast-paced course aimed at candidates with intermediate to advanced knowledge of PHP. If you are looking for an introduction to programming course based on PHP then our PHP Fundamentals to Advanced courses are what you are looking for.

PHP Certification Course Objectives

PHP Basics

• Syntax
• Operators
• Variables
• Control Structures
• Language Constructs and Functions
• Namespaces
• Extensions
• Config
• Performance/bytecode caching

Functions

• Arguments
• Variables
• References
• Returns
• Variable Scope
• Anonymous Functions, closures
• Type Declarations

Data Format & Types

• XML Basics
• SimpleXML
• XML Extension
• Webservices Basics
• SOAP
• JSON
• DateTime
• DOMDocument

Web Features

• Sessions
• Forms
• GET and POST data
• Cookies
• HTTP Headers
• HTTP Authentication
• HTTP Status Codes

Object Oriented Programming

• Instantiation
• Modifiers/Inheritance
• Interfaces
• Return Types
• Autoload
• Reflection
• Type Hinting
• Class Constants
• Late Static Binding
• Magic (_*) Methods
• Instance Methods & Properties
• SPL
• Traits

Security

• 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

I/O

• Files
• Reading
• Writing
• File System Functions
• Streams
• Contexts

Strings & Patterns

• Quoting
• Matching
• Extracting
• Searching
• Replacing
• Formatting
• PCRE
• NOWDOC
• Encodings

Databases SQL

• SQL
• Joins
• Prepared Statements
• Transactions
• PDO

Arrays

• Associative Arrays
• Array Iteration
• Array Functions
• SPL, Objects as arrays
• Casting

Error Handling

• Handling Exceptions
• Errors
• Throwables