Tips for tasks assessing a candidate's OO PHP capability

[hessodreamy]

I recently interviewed a candidate for a web developer position who seemed OK, but admitted that his previous role hadn't exposed him to much object orientated PHP.

Normally when I give candidates technical tests I give them fairly simple tasks to assess the cleanliness, logic and security-conciousness of their code, but this time I'd like to specifically test how well he does with some intermediate object orientated tasks.

Any suggestions as to what kind of task to give?

[tests4geeks]

Please look at this online test:
tests4geeks.com/test/php
It contains OOP questions. The test has 20 questions and allows to test PHP skills of the candidate.
You need just to send the link to the candidate. After he finish the test, you will receive the report. OOP category will have the separate rank!
Also there is combined PHP and MySQL test (if you need also to test MySQL skills)

[jestep]

What do you consider to be an "intermediate object orientated task"?

I'd be scared based on the "hadn't exposed him to much object orientated PHP" comment. I'm not sure what the exact specifications of the job are and I don't want to be the one to prevent someone from getting a job. But at this point not being exposed to and very comfortable with OOP at a minimum and ORM's, MVC, design patterns, etc, would probably be a disqualifier unless you only require the absolutely most basic procedural PHP programming or this candidate has extensive experience in some off-required specialty. I would consider all of these to be fairly run of the mill programming nowadays.