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PHP 7 Data Structures and Algorithms

You're reading from   PHP 7 Data Structures and Algorithms Implement linked lists, stacks, and queues using PHP

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463890
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mizanur Rahman Mizanur Rahman
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Preface 1. Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding PHP Arrays 3. Using Linked Lists 4. Constructing Stacks and Queues 5. Applying Recursive Algorithms - Recursion 6. Understanding and Implementing Trees 7. Using Sorting Algorithms 8. Exploring Search Options 9. Putting Graphs into Action 10. Understanding and Using Heaps 11. Solving Problems with Advanced Techniques 12. PHP Built-In Support for Data Structures and Algorithms 13. Functional Data Structures with PHP

Use of multi-dimensional arrays to represent data structures

In coming chapters, we will talk about many different data structures and algorithms. One of the key data structures we are going to focus is the graph. We already know the definition of graph data structures. Most of the time we will be using PHP multidimensional arrays to represent that data as an adjacency matrix. Let us consider the following graph diagram:

Now if we consider each node of the graph to be a value of an array, we can represent the nodes as:

$nodes = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E'];

But this will only give us node names. We cannot connect or create a relationship between nodes. In order to do that, we need to construct a two-dimensional array where the node names will be keys, and values will be 0 or 1 based on the interconnectivity of two nodes. Since there...

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