Since I’ve read through PHP Objects, Patterns and Principles (2nd Edition)
The Results
Things I Failed
- Database Access
Things I passed
- XML & Web Services
- Streams and Network Programming
Thing I got an “Excellent” rating on
- String Manipulation and Regular Expressions
- Basic Language
- Functions
- PHP 4/5 differences
- OOP
- Design
- Security
- Web Features
- Arrays
Things I improved on
- Arrays
- PHP4/5 Differences
- String manipulation and regular expressions
- Functions
- Security
- OOP
Things I lost ground on
- XML & Web Services
Conclusion
- XML & Web Services
Conclusion
The overall result was an Excellent.
Obviously, I need to read up on database access- though with things moving towards PDO I’m unsure as to how much effort I should put into non-PDO database access.
Again, I need to improve my knowledge of streams & network programming with PHP, though with a Pass, I may just need to find a project to do that uses streams & network programming as opposed to doing intense research.
XML & Web Services is the only thing I lost ground on, so that’ll be another thing to read up on.
It seems my theory regarding my previous failure on PHP4/5 Differences was correct- I’ve been working exclusively in PHP5 when creating new code, with most of the 3rd-party code I work with consisting mostly of PHP4.
