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The PHP online test assesses knowledge of programming in the PHP language through a series of live coding questions.

The assessment includes work-sample tasks such as:

  • Serializing to/from JSON to handle web requests.
  • Using OOP principles in PHP.
  • Working with associative arrays and using common built-in functions.

A good PHP developer needs a solid understanding of the PHP programming language and its specifics, OOP principles, and the ability to take advantage of its rich set of built-in functions.

Sample public questions

Easy
10 min
code
Public
AI-resistant
PHP
Arithmetic
Conditional Statements
Constant
Video

A megastore offers three types of discounts, which are represented as DiscountType enum.

Implement the getDiscountedPrice function which should take the total weight of the shopping cart, the total price, and the discount type. It should return the final discounted price based on the discount schemes as shown in the promotional video below:

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For example, the following code:

echo getDiscountedPrice(12, 100, DiscountType::Weight);

should print:

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Hard
30 min
code
Public
AI-resistant
PHP
2D Array
Graphs
Video
New

A turn-based strategy game has a grid with water and land. The grid contains a true value where it's water and false where it's land.

The player controls a boat unit with a particular movement pattern. It can only move to fixed destinations from its current position as shown in the video below:

The boat can only move in a direct path through water to the possible destinations, so a destination will become unreachable if there is land in the way.

Implement the canTravelTo function, that checks whether a destination is reachable by the boat. It should return true for destinations that are reachable according to the pattern above, and false for unreachable or out of bounds destinations which are outside the grid.

For example, consider the following code:

$gameMatrix = [
    [false, true,  true,  false, false, false],
    [true,  true,  true,  false, false, false],
    [true,  true,  true,  true,  true,  true],
    [false, true,  true,  false, true,  true],
    [false, true,  true,  true,  false, true],
    [false, false, false, false, false, false],
  ];
  

echo canTravelTo($gameMatrix, 3, 2, 2, 2) ? "true\n" : "false\n"; // true, Valid move
echo canTravelTo($gameMatrix, 3, 2, 3, 4) ? "true\n" : "false\n"; // false, Can't travel through land
echo canTravelTo($gameMatrix, 3, 2, 6, 2) ? "true\n" : "false\n"; // false, Out of bounds

The following image shows valid and invalid destinations when the boat is in the position (3, 2):

Terrain movement

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Skills and topics tested

  • PHP
  • Exceptions
  • Inheritance
  • Method Overriding
  • OOP
  • Null Coalescing Operator
  • Callback
  • Classes
  • Properties
  • Stack
  • Arrays
  • Recursion
  • Associative Arrays
  • Iteration
  • JSON
  • Serialization
  • XML
  • Stream
  • Strings
  • Arithmetic
  • Session
  • Interfaces
  • Algorithmic Thinking
  • Linked List
  • Bug Fixing
  • Integer Division
  • Language
  • Pass by Reference
  • Regex
  • Sorting
  • AI Code Review
  • Conditional Statements
  • Loops
  • Conditions
  • 2D Array
  • Video
  • Graphs
  • Video

For job roles

  • PHP Developer
  • Web Developer

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