Classic Computer Science Problems in PHP

PHP ports of the examples in David Kopec's book "Classic Computer Science Problems in Python" You can download the original Python examples from David's repository.

Requirements

• PHP 7.2 or newer to run the examples
• PHP 7.3 or newer to run the unit tests

Running the Examples

All examples have been designed to be used both on the command line interface (CLI) and in a web browser (served by a web server running the required PHP version).

In order to run the examples on CLI, just cd into the Chapter{n} directories and type php filename. Make sure to use the cli and not the web files for chapters 8 and 9.

If you want to run the web examples, make sure that the complete example directory is availabe via web server, and then point your browser to http://{your-website/examples-folder}/index.html.

Unit Tests

This project contains PHPUnit unit tests for most of the PHP classes. In order to run them, perform the following steps:

1. Make sure you have the latest version of Composer
2. In the project's main directory, run composer install
3. Change to the tests subdirectory: cd tests
4. Run all tests: ../vendor/phpunit/bin/phpunit .