I must be a suspicious character, but I haven't come across Expert Rating before, nor do I know what Pete's connection with Expert Rating is, so I went and looked at the PHP web site (where we are led to believe that we would expect to find "a lot of excitement") but a site-wide search fails to yield a single hit. Ok I'll go straight to the horse's mouth and look at their own web site, where I get to thinking about a certification body in the UK (based in Bristol) that has its prices set in USD.
Question: who has achieved this distinction and how many employers have commented that the Expert Rating evaluation was the MAJOR selling point? =dn > Good news for the PHP developer community- > <a href="http://www.expertrating.com">ExpertRating</a>, the global > skills assessment provider has launched an online PHP Certification > exam. Candidates who pass the exam will be mailed a hardcopy certificate > of > accomplishment. The launch of this exam has generated a lot of excitement > in the PHP developer community. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php