Qualities of a Professional PHP Web Developer

PHP is extremely popular among the web development community. Many prefer their dream project developed in PHP. It is server side scripting so helpful in the development of dynamic pages. Searching a PHP developer is easy task but selecting a professional PHP web developer is somewhat difficult. If we consider following points during the selection of PHP developer we can make a success.

PHP developer must be sound theoretically as well as practically in PHP development and you can identify this by asking the differences between PHP 4 and PHP 5. He should know at least three major features that separate PHP5 from PHP4.

Today the website development scenario says there are applications or websites which are not developed only in PHP but a developer should know other languages. If developer does not have mastery in other languages, he should have minimum knowledge that how to integrate them in PHP. For instance he should know HTML, CSS, Flash, etc.

Developer should have enough understanding of Object Oriented Programming. He should be able to answer simple question on OOP like how private and protected methods differ. He should have following concepts clear in his mind.

· Interfaces

· Constructors

· private, public, protected

· Inheritance

· Polymorphism

· static methods

He should have knowledge regarding majority of databases. He should have understanding of primary and foreign keys. He should at least know what a normalized database is. He should know some design patterns. PHP Programmer should have understanding of it and its importance. He must know why they are helpful. He must know at least one major source control system. He should know the importance of CVS.

He should know what unit testing is, and why it is important for a project. He should know about test driven design, knowing how to unit test JavaScript, or how to use selenium. He should know the methods use to manipulate the DOM like appendChild, removeChild, nextSibling, etc. He should know how to create classes in JavaScript. He should know how to make a private variable in JavaScript.

He should know the box model inside out; understand CSS selectors and how to use inheritance. He must be a part of community so he can take help of others whenever in need. He must have burning desire to learn more and more. He must be good in communication so that he can handle clients easily. He must have passion for team work so he can do anything with any team.

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