The MyBuilder.com Tech blog has a tutorial posted showing you how to work with binary trees in PHP, specifically how to perform insertion, removal and inversion operations on their data.

Recently Max Howell (creator of Homebrew) posted an interesting tweet in regard to Google's interview process. In this tweet he mentioned how one of the proposed questions was to white-board a solution to invert a binary tree. Over the past couple of years I have been interested in exploring fundamental Computer Science data-structures and algorithms. As a result, I thought it would be interesting to explore this structure and associated operations in more depth - using immutable and mutable PHP implementations to clearly highlight the benefits garnered from each approach.

He starts with a brief definition of what a binary search tree is just to be sure everyone is on the same page. He then gets into the code to represent a Node, a simple class that has a value and "left" and "right" variables to contain each of the possible two child nodes. He then goes through each of the operations (insertion, removal and inversion) showing code examples for both mutable and immutable methods.