Interview questions for php programmers

[RossC0]

Why not set them a test of coding something, using your environment.

See how the code looks - and quiz them about their approach, logic and reasoning.

I for one have no idea how the Zend architecture works! I also couldn't tell you what the regular expression to split an email address is, in PHP or not...

I dont see them as rememberable - sure if I need to know, I can find them out - because as a professional web dev - thats what I do - I problem solve!

[BuzzLY]

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[rgermain]

This almost looks like a final I would have taken in college, even then they would have given us 10 minutes of open book time. I fully understand trying to hire the best of the best, but sometimes its not always what you know, but if you know where to find it. I mean sure I could probably do all that stuff, just give me some time to look it up and figure it out. Even to this day I look stuff up in the PHP Manual for some of the simplest functions. Can't remember everything and if you can then more power to you.

[bubblenut]

Yep, my answer to quite a few of those questions (even if I knew the answer in some cases) would just be php.net/[insert-relevent-function/group-name-here]

[Weedpacket]

Aye, I've got my wee "phpman" script so's I can run "phpman xml-set-processing-instruction-handler" from the command line; and I've got a PHP lookup widget in Firefox. In the last half hour I've used them three times.

[bubblenut]

Originally posted by Weedpacket
Aye, I've got my wee "phpman" script so's I can run "phpman xml-set-processing-instruction-handler" from the command line; and I've got a PHP lookup widget in Firefox. In the last half hour I've used them three times.

Oooh, now that sounds cool. Can't persuade you to stick it up in the code critique or somewhere can I?

[piersk]

Also, can you please stick up a link to the firefox extension for PHP (I'm assuming thats what it is)

[bubblenut]

I acn help with that one, search for php here. There's a phpbuilder one as well.

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by bubblenut
Oooh, now that sounds cool. Can't persuade you to stick it up in the code critique or somewhere can I?

No, really, it is wee. It's a 44-byte shell script that just embeds its argument into a templated filename of the form function.$1.html and attempts to open the resulting file - no error checking or searching or anything like that.

Originally posted by piersk
Also, can you please stick up a link to the firefox extension for PHP (I'm assuming thats what it is)

It's actually just a (Firefox/Mozilla) bookmark:

Name: PHP Search
Location: http://www.php.net/%s
Keyword: php

I've got a bookmark folder with about half-a-dozen widgets like this.

[bubblenut]

Oh come on. You get to bask in our constant adoration but never give any code. You know damned well even if your code was completely poopy we'd all be thinking "well, he must have so much else on his mind this must have just been just a five min job."
Personally, I'd say you have a responsibility to the board now that your post count has risen so high :p

[Weedpacket]

\downloads\php\manual\function.%1.html

So it's Windows. Shoot me.

[bubblenut]

WOW! I was not expecting something quite that short. What does Windows open up html files in, the default web browser? You could use Lynx on a Linux box and never have to leave a black background 😃

[phpprogrammer]

Dear Friends,

you can get the answers from

http://www.discussweb.com/showthread.php?t=644&highlight=interview+questions

regards,
bvsureshbabu

[pohopo]

It's actually just a (Firefox/Mozilla) bookmark:

Name: PHP Search
Location: http://www.php.net/%s
Keyword: php

I've got a bookmark folder with about half-a-dozen widgets like this.

Thanks, I learn something new everyday. This will save me a few extra clicks.