ZEND PHP 5 Certification STUDY GUIDE

How To Use This Book
We wrote php|architect’s Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide with the specific intent
of making it useful in two situations:
• For candidates who are preparing for the Zend exam
• For student of instructor-led classes who are approaching and studying PHP
for the first time
These choices may seem obvious, but they, in fact, imply that we made a significant
assumption about our readers.
In the first instance—when you are studying for the PHP exam—we want this book
to act as a guide to your studies. Because you should not take on the exam unless
you have a working knowledge of PHP, this book will guide you through the different
topics that make up the exam with the idea that you will either be already familiar
with them, or that you will use the PHP manual as a reference companion to explore
in depth those subjects that you need to freshen up on.
If, on the other hand, you are using this book in an instructor-led class, we intend
it to act as a companion to your classroom experience, and not as a self-study or
reference tool.
As a result, this Guide does not teach you how to program in PHP, nor does it provide
exhaustive coverage of every single topic. This is by design—an all-inclusive
book would have missed the mark on both fronts: for starters, it would have been
much bigger and more expensive; it would have make preparing for the exam much
more difficult, as the significant amount of extraneous material—useful for reference
purposes, but detrimental to studying for the exam—would have made the
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