Nettuts+ Quiz #9: The Absolute Basics of PHP

Nettuts+ Quiz #9: The Absolute Basics of PHP

on Jan 16th 2012 with 127 comments
This entry is part 9 of 12 in the The Official Nettuts+ Quizzes Session
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In 2012, we plan to take our quizzes to a whole new level with ones aimed at all languages and catering to all competencies and tastes. But what better language to start off the new year than PHP, the darling of the masses?

In this test, aimed at beginners, your knowledge of the absolute basics of PHP will be tested. Yes, we know PHP is a bit old school but it still powers a massive portion of the web and is a force to be reckoned with. And don’t get complacent with the difficulty level of this test either! More difficult ones are on the way — we just like to take it nice and slow. Or maybe we like lulling you into a false sense of security…



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  • Thomas Jane

    I’d out-duel Dumbledore. Scored 100%, I wish my exams could be that easy, :). Thanks Siddharth.

    • hi

      ваваыва

  • http://devindombrowski.com Devin

    100%
    thanks

  • John

    76.47% and never programmed in PHP.

  • Igor

    Great, thanks

    how do I do a quiz like this?

  • http://www.umbraprojekt.pl mingos

    100% as well. Next set of questions, please ;P

  • http://web.tursos.com Josue Ochoa

    76.47%, excelent quiz!

  • Aron F.

    100%. NIce Quiz.

  • Jose Gomez

    100% Yeah! :D very nice test

  • http://okeowoaderemi.com Okeowo aderemi

    94.12%

  • Iulian

    Nice quiz. I expect more.

  • mackintock

    82%
    thanks

  • http://www.cyberstream.us Eli Mitchell

    YES! 100%!

    Question #2 was a little confusing though. I didn’t know if you meant with tags or without tags.

  • http://www.yanakadam.com Can YASTIOGLU

    My score 76.47% :) i thing my english not good :) thanks a lot for exam.

  • John

    Almost got me on question 12….almost. Lets get a harder quiz on PHP!

  • klaus

    nice but as the title says, very easy :)

  • http://www.minttwist.com.pt André

    100% w00t so easy though Howabout a hard one?

  • rod

    I’d out-duel Dumbledore. Scored 100%, I wish my exams could be that easy, :).
    Thanks Siddharth.
    Keep more coming!

    • Thomas Jane

      This kid is copied in exams from me! :(

  • http://jaywilsonjr.com/blog Jay Wilson Jr.

    88.24%…

    I’ve never written a line of PHP…

    Jay

  • chrismccoy

    1 wrong :/

  • Alberto

    yay! 100%, but I must admit that I was not sure about the last one haha.

  • Preston

    Slight confusion on Q#2. If ‘regular HTML code’ means the file’s extension is .html (or equivalent) then the answer would be different.

  • jvdanilo

    94.12%

  • Albert Bakker

    Who is Dumbledore?

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexanderjb Alexanderjb

    76% and I haven’t written a line of PHP in my life.

  • http://easyclick.ma jait Aimad

    88.40%.
    Not good for me ):

  • Ferdinand AMOI

    100%

  • Brendan

    $221BakerStreet is no good apparently? Can’t start a variable with numbers – is that what it is?

    • Gastón

      Yes, it is. It happen with almost all programming languages.

      • uvegla

        If I am correct, you cant do it syntactically. But check this piece of code:

        $name = ’221BakerStreet’;

        ${$name} = ‘It works!’;

        var_dump(${$name});

        echo ‘&ltpre&gt’;
        print_r(get_defined_vars());
        echo ‘&lt/pre&gt’;

  • http://australiana.pl Meggie

    100% score, so my PHP knowladge isn’t that bad ;-)

  • Jose

    My 8 years old Son score 58.82% not bad !!!

  • http://blog.shian.tw shian

    94.12%

  • http://raymondlware.com ray

    94.12% Got me on #12.

  • http://redhat.al kal

    100% great quiz!

  • [rb]

    I would have got 100% except for “Are PHP short tags considered good, standard practice?” which I new your quiz would consider false but this is a stupid question as it is a matter of preference and environment.

    Short tags are considered bad on archaic environments but that for the most part has been surpassed.
    I have never used an environment that didn’t support short tags and its easy enough to turn on.

    This question is entirely preferential and can neither be true or false.

    • http://www.dreu.info Robert-Jan de Dreu

      Yep I failed on this one question too. PHP short tags to a valid way to open PHP AFAIK. PHP even decided against removing them from PHP so I don’t understand why people think that it is bad practice.

  • http://www.developnew.com Bali

    88.4%….cool questions..

  • Valentin

    Never programmed at all :)) 52.94%

  • Nico

    That second Question is so missleading :( Depends on Serverconfiguration. And is regulat HTML Code a html file or just Hthml Code in a php file?^^

    Else i got 100%

  • logudotcom

    I scored 88.24 .. Great

  • http://drewsymo.com Drew

    Question 2 is a little undefined, you can’t embed PHP into a .html document, only a .php.

  • http://kwiius.com Jamie McC

    Seems strange to me to have two questions about case-sensitive variables… I nearly got the second one wrong (other than that, 100%!)

  • http://www.iam420.in vivek

    Exceeds Expectations! I scored 82.35%

  • http://blog.mustafakirimli.com Mustafa KIRIMLI

    Woo! I scored 100 on the Nettuts quiz about the basics of PHP. Give it a shot!
    It’s easy quiz.

  • http://benmartinstudios.com.au Ben

    Good thing I am able to out duel Dumbeldore. If I weren’t, you’d have to wonder how I can develop on CC ;)

  • Dietzor

    What will be the output for the following code:

    This will cause an error!

  • kankaro

    I’ve got 1 mistake I’ve scored 94.12%… thanks a lot for the quiz siddharth

  • http://dannilsson.se Dan

    100% and have coded php for some time. :D

  • harish

    i scored 94.12%, i got ‘Are PHP short tags considered good, standard practice?’ wrong.. tricky one.. :D

  • jubi

    great programmed quiz! looks really good!

  • http://planeta3d.net Bruno

    Exceded my expectations: 88.24%
    Ps: Number 2 was little bit confusing

  • http://karloo.com Steven

    88.24%,not good ,but it’s a nice test. : )

  • Avelansh

    Like it’s been said, it was super easy !

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