PHP Certification

Zend offer a multitude of online training programmes to help you on your way to becoming a fantastic PHP developer, whether you're taking the PHP certification exam or not.

To help with this, they now offer what's called 'Zend Online Training Units' whereby you can purchase a set of units, in advance, for an overall reduced price - this is invaluable for someone who thinks they might need to go through a few of their training courses, and great for companies who wish to keep their staff trained whilst keeping within budget for the remainder of the year.

New courses and services are continually being added, so you know you're going to be kept up to date.

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Update: Visit our coupons section, where you can use a voucher to save 7.5% on this and other Zend training courses and services until December 31st 2010!

Here are some books that will help you with your PHP training regime.
Some are specifically for helping you with the Zend PHP Certification exam and some are just general PHP training books that will help you get your PHP knowledge up to scratch, whether you are taking the Zend certification exam, another type of certification exam/test or you just want to improve your knowledge. They will also help you to learn the best PHP programming practices, which is extremely useful if you're self taught and you want to work in a team environment with other PHP developers.
Although every care has been taken to make sure these books will be suitable for most viewers of this website, it is up to you to make sure that, if you choose one of the books below, it will be suitable for yourself.
I highly recommend Amazon for any book purchases and, in my honest opinion, they are by far the cheapest and most respected book seller on the net.
I suggest you click on a book you like the look of below (or the link from the previous sentence) and do some research on Amazon's site - see what other people are buying, make sure the book will be up to date and cover what you need, although don't be completely put off by a book from 2005 - it may be a few years old now but, as long as it covers PHP 5, not much has changed since.
Happy training!

A few years ago, the boom in Information Technology and online websites saw a rather large rise in the demand for trained professionals in the world of PHP and MySQL programming - the language and database of choice for most web developers.
Software and web development businesses, who specialise in PHP/MySQL web development, are often searching to recruit pros who are skilled in all aspects to do with PHP website development for their important clients and projects.
It is still considered a potential growth industry and there will be a need for PHP developers for years to come so if you are considering a career in PHP you may need some PHP training if you don't already know it all.