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PHP developers go through 3 stages in their life

• Beginner


• Good


• Best

A beginner PHP coder is some one who just started making some PHP projects in CMS like Wordpress, Joomla, Magento and other PHP based CMS.

A good PHP coder completed or knows all PHP based CMS and is about to finish PHP Frameworks like Yii, Cake, Symphony, CI and others.

A best PHP coder is a complete package of Beginner and Good, that person needs no questions cause he might be ready with all the answers.

Now its time to rate yourself in PHP, I googled and found some questions which only a Good coder can answer.

Q1: What is T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM?
A: Its the scope resolution operator (double colon ::). This is valid for PHP 4 and later only.

Q2: What is the cause of this warning: 'Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent', and what is a good practice to prevent it?
A: Reason: body data was sent, causing headers to be sent too. This normally occurs when white space is sent accidentally.

Q3: What's wrong in this query: "SELECT * FROM table WHERE id = $_POST[ 'id' ]"?
A: This is the worst practice to select some row or fetch data, use specific row instead of *. Use PDO prepared statements to avoid SQL Injections.

Q4: What is wrong with this if statement: if( !strpos( $thread, $needle ) ...?
A: strpos returns the index position of needle, it could return false if its at 0 position. Instead give a if else check if( false !== strpos( $thread, $needle )...

Q5: What is the preferred way to write this if statement, and why?
if( 5 == $someVar ) or if( $someVar == 5 )
A: The former, it prevents accidental assignments of 5 to $somevar if you forgot two == signs(if( $someVar = 5 ))

Q6: In the below code, whats the value of $a and $b after the function call and why?

[php]
function doSomething( &$arg )
{
$return = $arg;
$arg += 1;
return $return;
}

$a = 3;
$b = doSomething( $a );
[/php]

A: $a is 4 and $b is 3. The former because $arg is passed by reference, the latter because the return value of the function is a copy of (not a reference to) the initial value of the argument.

Q7: What is the difference between public, protected and private in a class definition?
A: public makes a class member available to "everyone", protected makes the class member available to only itself and derived classes, private makes the class member only available to the class itself.

Q8: What is wrong with this code:

[php]
class SomeClass
{
protected $_someMember;

public function __construct()
{
$this->_someMember = 1;
}

public static function getSomethingStatic()
{
return $this->_someMember * 5; // here's the catch
}
}

[/php]

A: Static methods don't have access to $this, because static methods can be executed without instantiating a class.

Q9: What is the difference between an interface and an abstract class?
A: An interface defines a contract between an implementing class is and an object that calls the interface. An abstract class pre-defines certain behaviour for classes that will extend it. To a certain degree this can also be considered a contract, since it garantuees certain methods to exist.

Q10: Which one is correct?: $array[name] or $array['name']?
A: Both of them will output the value, but only the quoted form is correct. To check this define(name,0); and see the bugs flying in the website.

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