In this section of the Zend PHP 5 Certification Blog I will be refreshing my knowledge of language constructs, not to be confused with functions! even though they look like them. You should already know of or know how to use these.

Define: Language Construct

A language construct is a syntactically allowable part of a program that may be formed from one or more lexical tokens in accordance with the rules of a programming language.

In PHP they have made Language Construct look like functions, this is to ease simplicity when learning PHP. We should be aware that those listed bellow are “Language Constructs”
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In this section of the Blog, their will be examples of Control Structures in PHP. This includes If and Switch statements, including the four types of loops. Not included in this section are objects and functions as they are documented in later posts. ZCE Zend Certification will cover Control Structures in detail in many sections.
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PHP is all about Variables! If you are intending to take the Zend PHP 5 Certification then you should be already very aware of Variables therefore I’m going to keep this one small and simple. Constants are even simpler than Variables both PHP Variables and Constants basics are bellow and feature (a lot) in the Certification.
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This is the largest Blog post yet, theirs lots of information about operators and some of it gets complex. Their are 10 Operator categories covered in this post, so read and lean.

This is a PHP 5 Zend Certification reading aid with the purpose to cover topics that may not be covered in the Study Guide. Good Luck!
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This article covers basic PHP syntax, including PHP Tags, variable usage, variable types, and several ways of printing variables to the web browser.
I remind you that you require some knowledge of PHP, as this blog is a revision aid not intended to educate from scrach. 
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