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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 tree

We will now create a binary tree (not a binary search tree). The key factor to have in a binary tree is that we must have two placeholders for the left child node and the right child node, along with the data we want to store in the node. A simple implementation of a binary node will look like this:

class BinaryNode { 

public $data;
public $left;
public $right;

public function __construct(string $data = NULL) {
$this->data = $data;
$this->left = NULL;
$this->right = NULL;
}

public function addChildren(BinaryNode $left, BinaryNode $right) {
$this->left = $left;
$this->right = $right;
}

}

The preceding code shows that we have a class with tree properties to store data, left and right. When we are constructing a new node, we are adding the node value to the data property, and left and...