RE: [PHP] Developer certifications

[kmurrah]

actually, it IS a timed test, so you cannot simply "spend all day looking up
the right answer."

BTW, if you do want to take the test, today is the last day that the exam is
offered for free ... tomorrow they start charging $20 or so for each
exam


-Original Message-
From: Mark Maggelet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 2:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [PHP] Developer certifications


On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 20:54:07 +0200 (EET), Dragos Roua
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>Hello,
>
>If you'll take a look at Brainbench.com you'll see a PHP4 cert exam
>there. As
>brainbench plan to become a paid service, their certifications may
>start worth
>something sometime.

The brainbench exam is terrible. It's heavy on knowing the details of
mssql functions and oci functions, and no points are given for speed.
It's like an open book test so anybody can spend all day looking up
the right answer, fill it out, and get a perfect score. If you just
want to get the thing over with you can be honest and dump all the
answers you don't know.

Anyway, I think that as a benchmark it's garbage. A good test should
stay away from most modules, and also include speed as a factor. Also
It's way too easy to cheat on a test like this, so I don't think they
should be taken too seriously no matter what.

I can see requiring a person to pass a test like this before they get
a job interview, but a company using the scores as a basis for hiring
someone would be silly.

>My 2 cents anyway...
>
>> Does anyone know of a company which is offering or planning to
>>offer PHP
>> developer certifications? Arguments against certification programs
>>aside[1],
>> there are a lot of companies which prefer certified developers,
>>even to the
>> point of assuming a project done in ASP will be better than the
>>same thing
>done
>> in PHP simply because the ASP developers are Microsoft certified.
>>
>> While this seems like an interesting sideline for a company like
>>Zend, I'm
>also
>> somewhat curious about whether an "Open Source" test could be
>>developed. It'd
>> certainly have to be quite different from normal tests and that
>>move away from
>> easily memorized answers would probably be a very good thing.
>>
>> [1] We've all heard them before. I'm personally in favor only of
>certifications
>> like certain devilishly hard Cisco exams which measure more than
>> multiple-choice memory.
>>
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[PHP] siimple cookie problem

[kmurrah]

Can someone help me with an elementary cookie problem?

I want to capture a variable, write to a cookie, and be able to access it
from other pages.

I've done that, and it works well

BUT, if I capture the same variable a second time (with a different value),
it still remembers the first value, not the second.  The only way I can get
it to understand the second value is to exit my browser and start over.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,

KennM



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RE: [PHP] PHP Books

[kmurrah]

I second the recommendation of the WROX Professional PHP Programming book.

If database work is anywhere in your future, though, try "PHP and MySQL Web
Development" by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson.  It is an EXCELLENT
reference on both PHP and MySQL, and although I own several PHP books, I
find myself referring to that book for almost everything.  (I think one of
the authors, Luke Welling, is on this list, but I'm not sure.)


Kenn Murrah
Baker GRFX
214-630-1700

-Original Message-
From: Roger Ramirez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 9:01 AM
To: Bernie Kruger
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Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP Books


On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Bernie Kruger wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I know this may be a previously discussed topic, but I want to be sure I
get
> the right books.  I need a good book on intermediate PHP programming.  I
am
> looking to buy PHP 4 Bible, but is that the best I can get?
>
> I looked through the list on the PHP website, but it does not rate the
books
> so I don't know which is best to start off with.  Untill now I have used
the
> manual, but I need more everyday examples.

I like Professional PHP Programming from WROX press.  I've never read
through the PHP4 Bible but I usually hear good things about the bible
series books.





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[PHP] sorting results of opendir()

[kmurrah]

Greetings.

I need to read the contents of a directory, sort it alphabetically, and
display it 

i'm doing find on the reading and displaying, but can someone help me with
the sort?


$dir = opendir(".");

while ($file=readdir($dir)) {


if($file!= "." && $file != "..")
{
echo("$file");
}
}





thanks,

kennm



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