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The '''Zend Certified Engineer''' ('''ZCE''') ] is an internationally-recognized ] certification established by ]. An exam must be passed in order to be awarded the certification. It is intended to prove that a person is fully qualified to develop PHP ].<ref>Marinaccio, Brent, , LinuxWorld Magazine, July 28, 2005</ref><ref>Martinez, Anne, , Certification Watch Volume 9 #9, July 26, 2006</ref><ref>Krill, Paul, , ], September 16, 2008</ref><ref>, ''Learning PHP and MySQL'' by Michele E. Davis and Jon Phillips, O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006, Pg. 334</ref><ref>Gareth, , Southern California Linux Expo, February 16, 2009</ref> Rates for PHP developers frequently run higher for those with Zend Certified Engineer certification.<ref name="oreilly_php_good_parts">{{cite book | last = Macintyre | first = Peter | title = PHP: The Good Parts: Delivering the Best of PHP | publisher = O'Reilly Media | date = 2010 | location = Sebastopol, CA | pages = x | url = http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596804381 | isbn = 978-0-596-80437-4}}</ref>

There are almost (approaching) 5,000 Zend Certified Engineers in the world with either PHP 4 or PHP 5 certifications. Zend's PHP 5 examination was introduced in August 2006, and the PHP 4 exam was retired in March 2007. Both versions are multiple choice examinations with the pass/fail score kept secret. Zend's PHP 5 exam costs ]125 as of ]<ref>, ]</ref> and is offered exclusively at ] testing sites.<ref>Lee, Justin, , ], September 16, 2008</ref><ref>Nagel, Becky, , CertCities, September 27, 2006</ref><ref>, ], July 26, 2004</ref>

To help Zend Certified Engineers gain exposure to potential employers, Zend lists all Zend Certified Engineers in its directory, Yellow Pages for PHP Professionals and allows ZCEs to join its exclusive ] group. They also allow Zend Certified Engineers to place a ZCE logo on their personal web site and ].

==Exam topics==
As PHP is mainly used as a web development language, the ZCE tests the candidate over a variety of skills necessary for developing web applications. The PHP 5 Certification exam covers<ref>, ]</ref><ref>, ], September 12, 2006</ref>:
* ] Basics
* Functions
* Arrays
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* Security, including ] and ]
* ] and ], including ], ], ], and ]
* Strings and patterns, including ]
* Databases and ]
* Web Features, such as sessions, forms, GET and POST data, cookies, and ] headers
* Streams and Network Programming
* Differences between PHP 4 and 5
* Design and Theory
* Php.ini settings

Although these are the Study Guide contents, there are more topics to consider in order to be prepared for the exam, such as use of the new extension ] layer to access databases, and the Standard PHP Library (SPL), a new set of classes specially created to manipulate objects as sets of arrays or files.

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==References==
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