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PHP 7 Data Structures and Algorithms

By : Mizanur Rahman
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Book Image

PHP 7 Data Structures and Algorithms

5 (1)
By: Mizanur Rahman

Overview of this book

PHP has always been the the go-to language for web based application development, but there are materials and resources you can refer to to see how it works. Data structures and algorithms help you to code and execute them effectively, cutting down on processing time significantly. If you want to explore data structures and algorithms in a practical way with real-life projects, then this book is for you. The book begins by introducing you to data structures and algorithms and how to solve a problem from beginning to end using them. Once you are well aware of the basics, it covers the core aspects like arrays, listed lists, stacks and queues. It will take you through several methods of finding efficient algorithms and show you which ones you should implement in each scenario. In addition to this, you will explore the possibilities of functional data structures using PHP and go through advanced algorithms and graphs as well as dynamic programming. By the end, you will be confident enough to tackle both basic and advanced data structures, understand how they work, and know when to use them in your day-to-day work
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Implementing a binary heap in PHP

One of the most popular ways to implement a binary heap is using an array. Since heaps are complete binary trees, they can be easily implemented using an array. If we consider the root item to be at index 1, then the child items will be at index 2 and 3. We can represent this as i for the root and 2*i for the left child and 2*i +1 for the right child. Also, we are going to implement the mean heap as our example. So, let us get started with the class structure for the min-heap implementation.

First, we are going to start by creating a class for MinHeap, which will have two properties, one for storing the heap array and another count for the number of elements in the heap at any given moment. Here is the code for the class:

class MinHeap { 

public $heap;
public $count;

public function __construct(int $size) {
$this->heap...