LeetCode in Php

5. Longest Palindromic Substring

Medium

Given a string s, return the longest palindromic substring in s.

Example 1:

Input: s = “babad”

Output: “bab” Note: “aba” is also a valid answer.

Example 2:

Input: s = “cbbd”

Output: “bb”

Example 3:

Input: s = “a”

Output: “a”

Example 4:

Input: s = “ac”

Output: “a”

Constraints:

Solution

class Solution {
    /**
     * @param String $s
     * @return String
     */
    public function longestPalindrome($s): string {
        if (($length = strlen($s)) <= 1) {
            return $s;
        }
        if (strrev($s) === $s) {
            return $s;
        }

        $max_length = 1;
        for ($i = 0; $i < $length; ++$i) {
            for ($len = $max_length; $len <= $length; ++$len) {
                $start = $i - ($len >> 1);
                if ($start < 0 || $start + $len > $length) {
                    break;
                }
                $substr = substr($s, $start, $len);
                if ($substr === strrev($substr)) {
                    $str = $substr;
                    $max_length = $len;
                } elseif ($max_length + 1 < $len) {
                    break;
                }
            }
        }

        return $str;
    }
}