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PHP 7 Data Structures and Algorithms

By : Rahman
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Book Image

PHP 7 Data Structures and Algorithms

5 (1)
By: 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)

Getting started with Tarsana

Tarsana is an open source library written by Amine Ben Hammou and is available on GitHub for download. It is inspired from Ramda JS, a functional programming library for JavaScript. It does not have any dependencies and has more than 100 predefined functions to use for different purposes. Functions in FP are spread over different modules and there are several modules such as functions, list, object, string, math, operators, and common. Tarsana can be downloaded from GitHub (https://github.com/Tarsana/functional) or can be installed via composer.

composer require Tarsana/functional

Once the library is downloaded, we have to use it by importing the Tarsana\Functional namespace, just like the following code:

use Tarsana\Functional as F; 

One of the interesting features of Tarsana is that we can convert any of our existing functions to a curried function...