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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)

Implementing priority queue using linked list

So far, we have seen a linked list using only one value, which is the node data. Now we need to pass another value that will be the priority. In order to achieve that, we need to change our ListNode implementation:

class ListNode {

public $data = NULL;
public $next = NULL;
public $priority = NULL;

public function __construct(string $data = NULL, int $priority =
NULL) {
$this->data = $data;
$this->priority = $priority;
}

}

Now we have both the data and the priority as part of the node. In order to allow this priority to be considered during the insert operation, we also need to change our insert() implementation inside the LinkedList class. Here is the modified implementation:

public function insert(string $data = NULL, int $priority = NULL) { 
$newNode = new ListNode($data, $priority);
$this...