In order to find the minimal number of insertions required to convert a given string(s) to palindrome I find the longest common subsequence of the string(lcs_string) and its
PHP Solution of O(n)
function insertNode(&$arr, $idx, $val) {
$arr = array_merge(array_slice($arr, 0, $idx), array($val), array_slice($arr, $idx));
}
function createPalindrome($arr, $s, $e) {
$i = 0;
while(true) {
if($s >= $e) {
break;
} else if($arr[$s] == $arr[$e]) {
$s++; $e--; // shrink the queue from both sides
continue;
} else {
insertNode($arr, $s, $arr[$e]);
$s++;
}
}
echo implode("", $arr);
}
$arr = array('b', 'e', 'a', 'a', 'c', 'd', 'a', 'r', 'e');
echo createPalindrome ( $arr, 0, count ( $arr ) - 1 );