anonymousdude

Question for anyone that has taken the PHP 5 Certification exam recently. I noticed the following statement on Zend's website, "The new certification exam has been completely rewritten, and is a completely new exam, not just an "upgrade" of the previous version." http://www.zend.com/services/certification/php-5-certification/ Unfortunately this document isn't dated so I have no idea how long ago it changed. I know there have been plenty of previous posts on this topic and I did a search and read quite a few of them. One trend I noticed was that most of the people who said they took the exam awhile back said it was easy, and it seemed most of the people who took the exam more recently said it was actually harder than the mock tests. Which got me wondering if maybe the mock tests weren't upgraded with the test itself. Anyway, I'm just trying to get some feedback from anyone who took the test recently and how you thought it compared to the mock tests. One issue I have in with the mock tests is that there are some really off the wall questions, that aren't listed in the topics on the Zend site or in the Study Guide. I've seen questions on Expat XML functions, gzip file compression, and SQLite. Which makes me wonder, do I really need to study this stuff or are the practice exams just not that accurate? Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks for the reply. There isn't by any chance a similar Windows solution that you know of?

Hi Everyone, I'm trying to create a script that allows users to upload photos. Obviously anytime you allow a user to upload a file security is a concern. I was pretty surprised that the PHP Security book I'm reading didn't mention much about scanning uploads for Viruses. Rather it mainly just spoke about using is_uploaded_file and move_uploaded_file. I'm wondering how I can implement a virus scan on the file before using move_uploaded_file to save the file on a directory on the server. It seems allowing random users to upload files to your server without performing a virus scan would be a pretty foolish thing to do. Does anyone have any info on how I could do this? Thanks!