I purchase the guide before month and because I am outside US it will be inn my country after another month ( I actually bought it pdf version from phparch but because of the issue between Sams they cancel pdf version and sent the print on thier own charge for the shipment) , when I see Zend offer I take it directly but ofcourse I now must read from manual because the last day is 30th September , so I read hard , but of course not all the manual , but what I feel its important to read in the manual . I do not figure out that zend write the objective untill the last day , I take the self test and it make me feel better but the self test making you feel like if you get 3 from 5 you will success , I arrive at the center , do what it have to be done , and log in the room and I was very excited about exam when I get the test I found out its very simple and easy but because I read from manual I have confused in a lot of things in exam .
Example 1 : they give 4 function and ask you to choose 2 , in all my life I was just one function and for first time now I hear there are another function which help you to calc the file size , so I choose random function . Example 2 : they give you some space to fill some text from your experience , I think I must write what they think its truth , inn example one of space I confuse what to write (object or class) because I do not get the situation of the code or thing they talk about , and think what if you write the spelling wrong but you get the idea. Example 3: they ask you about the possibility of validate user input if its for only unTrusted person or on the internet or also give you 2 choice, I think this thing is belong to me to decide on my work experience and not the opinion of the testers . at the final I feel and believe in my heart like I get 60 or 50 of exam at least correct but the I end I figure out my grade is FAILED . I have 3 years experience with php , I build a script of thousands of lines , but the really point that I do not read thing in manual untill I feel I must read and I need it, I make lot of scripts on php from 3 years , I do not work ever with streams , and i get what I need in regular expression by test and test and test for the code , if you want my advice read a lot about arrays and if the function will give you the new value or will do the process in the same array and which type of array the function must use and return and how much of arrays they can handle. I write a book in php in arabic of more than 100 and it was the first book for arabs, , I make scripts for writers , sellers , shops And now i figure out that I must read good and install manual in my brain to be success . but what the benefit of this when I read I figure out that there are a lot of thinngs usefel in php that I do not know about . and give me a keys for a new things in php that I was do not care about it in the past . I encourage the people have a good brain to save information to get the test , and encourage the people to complete thier road of development , your work is the strongest approve of your Exprience and your hardwork . the problem that youu will not be in the yellow pages in the Zend site . finally , thanks to the people who write the test they make it very good and very simple and easy , they was so fair , who got good knowldge will pass . -- Alawi Albaity Jeddah - KSA Mobile : +966506660442 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
