Zend 200-550 Actual Questions

How can a SimpleXML object be converted to a DOM object?

What function allows resizing of PHP's file write buffer?

Given the following code, what is correct?

function f(stdClass &$x = NULL) { $x = 42; }

$z = new stdClass;

f($z);

var_dump($z);

Consider the following table data and PHP code. What is the outcome?

Table data (table name "users" with primary key "id"):

id name email

------- ----------- -------------------

1 anna alpha@example.com

2 betty beta@example.org

3 clara gamma@example.net

5 sue sigma@example.info

PHP code (assume the PDO connection is correctly established):

$dsn = 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=exam';

$user = 'username';

$pass = '********';

$pdo = new PDO($dsn, $user, $pass);

try {

$cmd = "INSERT INTO users (id, name, email) VALUES (:id, :name, :email)";

$stmt = $pdo->prepare($cmd);

$stmt->bindValue('id', 1);

$stmt->bindValue('name', 'anna');

$stmt->bindValue('email', 'alpha@example.com');

$stmt->execute();

echo "Success!";

} catch (PDOException $e) {

echo "Failure!";

throw $e;

}