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Bobby Iliev

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Discover and practice common questions that are frequently asked in PHP related interviews to better prepare yourself and increase your chances of landing the job.

Top Common Interview PHP Questions

OK.
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This is trick question, are you comparing objects for equality or that they are the same instance? Oh and I got the answer wrong?
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This function is deprecated and removed! So my answer is correct.
&quot; NULL is a special type that only has one value: NULL.&quot;
NULL is a special value that is nothing… NULL only equals to NULL. So it doesn’t have a value.
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ARE FUCKING KIDDING ME? <a href="https://www.php.net/manual/en/introduction.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://www.php.net/manual/en/introduction.php</a> unless you take embedding PHP an HTML page too literal.

These are the stupidest questions I’ve ever seen. And I’ve never seen them in an interview. Some of them for junior, some of them like about “Interactive shell” even I after 15 y of exp used never.

IMO none of these questions should be asked in an interview, if you’re hiring a new developer - and probably as a developer I would raise my eyebrow and asking myself silently “are you kidding me?”. None of these questions guarantee that someone is actually a good developer. Interview questions should rather be about coding patterns or problem solving questions on a higher level. The language to do that is just a tool. Or ask which language you would use to solve a specific issue and why, because obviously not every language suites every use-case.