Sunday, July 18. 2004

For those of you who haven't heard yet, Zend is now offering a Certification Test as a PHP Engineer. This 70 or so question standardized test was architected by myself and other members of the PHP Educational Advisory Board -- a group of leaders in the PHP Community charged with defining what exact it means to be a qualified PHP developer.

Besides the test itself there is also an official study guide and php|architect has also just opened a complete certification center on their web site. The certification center will be a great resource for those who are interested in taking the test and will have many resources including inexpensive practice exams. I am currently in the process of writing these practice exams and will be an excellent way to prepare for the real thing.

As for the certifications themselves, you'll have to go to one of the official VUE testing centers. For those of you who will be attending OSCON this year Zend will also have their mobile testing center at the conference for people to get certified. You can Sign up to get tested today and even receive a $50 dollar discount (use the promotional code "OSCON2004") off of the retail price of $200 dollars.

So what are you waiting for? Go get certified! For those organizations which are interested in getting their development staff certified I can arrange to have group discounts so Contact me if that'll be useful to you.