Undoubtedly, SPL tries to solve common data structure implementation issues for PHP programmers. Many of us are either afraid or reluctant to implement proper data structure while programming. SPL comes with implementation of all basic data structure and, hence, makes life easier for developers by using built-in classes and methods. Since SPL comes as a bundle with PHP, we do not need to install it separately or enable any extension for it. In this section, we will discuss some of the common SPL classes in brief:
- SplDoublyLinkedList: This class gives us the option to implement a doubly linked list without writing a big chunk of code. Though it says doubly linked list, we can utilize this class to implement stack and queue as well, by setting the iteration mode in the setIteratorMode method.
- SplStack: SplStack class is an extended version of the SplDoublyLinkedList...