In an election, the i-th vote was cast for persons[i] at time times[i].

Now, we would like to implement the following query function: TopVotedCandidate.q(int t) will return the number of the person that was leading the election at time t.

Votes cast at time t will count towards our query.  In the case of a tie, the most recent vote (among tied candidates) wins.

["TopVotedCandidate","q","q","q","q","q","q"], [[[0,1,1,0,0,1,0],[0,5,10,15,20,25,30]],[3],[12],[25],[15],[24],[8]]

[null,0,1,1,0,0,1]

At time 3, the votes are [0], and 0 is leading.
At time 12, the votes are [0,1,1], and 1 is leading.
At time 25, the votes are [0,1,1,0,0,1], and 1 is leading (as ties go to the most recent vote.)
This continues for 3 more queries at time 15, 24, and 8.

Here’s my rejected solution

<?php
class TopVotedCandidate {
    
    public $dic=[];
    public $r =[];

    public $keys = [];
    /**
     * @param Integer[] $persons
     * @param Integer[] $times
     */
    function __construct($persons, $times) {
        $max = 0;
        $prev_person = null;
        for($i = 0; $i < count($times); $i ++){
            $this->inc($persons[$i]);
            arsort($this->$dic);
  
            foreach($this->$dic as $k=>$v){
                $max_this_round = $k;
                break;
            }
            $person_this_round = $persons[$i];

            if($i > 0){
                if($max_this_round === $max){
                    $person_this_round = $prev_person;
                } 
            }
            echo $person_this_round;
            $this->$r[$times[$i]] = $person_this_round;
            $max = $max_this_round;
            $prev_person = $persons[$i];
        }
        var_dump($this->$r);
        ksort($this->$r);
        var_dump($this->$r);
        $this->$keys = array_keys($this->$r);
        
    }
  
    /**
     * @param Integer $t
     * @return Integer
     */
    function q($t) {
        $k =  $this->binarySearch($t);
        return $this->$r[$k];
    }
    
    function inc($p){
        if(isset($this->$dic[$p])){
            $this->$dic[$p] ++;
        } else {
            $this->$dic[$p] = 1;
        }
    }
    
    
    function binarySearch($x) { 
        $arr =  $this->$keys;
        $low = 0; 
        $high = count($arr) - 1; 
        

        while ($low <= $high) { 

            // compute middle index 
            $mid = floor(($low + $high) / 2); 

            // element found at mid 
            if($arr[$low] <= $x && $arr[$mid] >= $x &&  $mid - $low <= 1) { 
                return $low; 
            } 

            if ($x < $arr[$mid]) { 
                // search the left side of the array 
                $high = $mid -1; 
            } 
            else { 
                // search the right side of the array 
                $low = $mid + 1; 
            } 
            echo "$low-$mid-$high\n";
        } 

        return false; 
    }
}

/**
 * Your TopVotedCandidate object will be instantiated and called as such:
 * $obj = TopVotedCandidate($persons, $times);
 * $ret_1 = $obj->q($t);
 */

?>

Here are the problems:

• Just like the previous problem, my PHP syntax is wrong,  and the prev problem is accepted.  I didn’t even ever question about the syntax
• And I wasted too much time on debugging, caused by syntax.
• And my modified binary search isn’t working
• And yes, that’s totally a mess

Here’s the my accepted solution

<?php
class TopVotedCandidate {
    
    public $dic=[];
    public $r =[];

    public $keys = [];
    /**
     * @param Integer[] $persons
     * @param Integer[] $times
     */
    function __construct($persons, $times) {
        $prev_max = 0;
        $prev_winner = null;

        for($i = 0; $i < count($times); $i ++){
            $this->inc($persons[$i]);

            arsort($this->dic);

            reset($this->dic);
            $winner = key($this->dic);
            
            $max = $this->dic[$winner];
            if($prev_winner !== null){
                if($max == $prev_max){
                    $winner = $prev_winner;
                }
            }
            if($this->dic[$persons[$i]] == $this->dic[$winner]){
                 $winner = $persons[$i];
            }

            $prev_max = max($prev_max, $max);
            $prev_winner = $winner;
            $this->r[$times[$i]] = $winner;
            
        }
        ksort($this->r);
        $this->keys = array_keys($this->r);
        
    }
  
    /**
     * @param Integer $t
     * @return Integer
     */
    function q($t) {
        $k =  $this->binarySearch($t);
        echo "$t => $k";
        return $this->r[$k];
    }
    
    function inc($p){
        if(isset($this->dic[$p])){
            $this->dic[$p] ++;
        } else {
            $this->dic[$p] = 1;
        }
    }
    
    // This is a modified binary search, finding the nearest smaller index 
    // just like floorKey in Java's TreeMap
    function binarySearch($x) { 
        $arr =  $this->keys;
        $low = 0; 
        $high = count($arr) - 1; 
        
        
        if($x < $arr[$low]){
            return false;
        }
        
        while ($high >= $low) { 
            $mid = $low + floor(($high - $low) / 2); 

            if($x >= $arr[$high]){
                return (int) $arr[$high];
            }
            
            if($arr[$mid] == $x) { 
                return (int) $arr[$mid]; 
            } 

            if ($x < $arr[$mid]) { 
                $high = $mid-1; 
            } else { 
                $low = $mid+1; 
            } 
            
        } 
        return (int) $arr[$low-1];

    }
}
?>
/**
 * Your TopVotedCandidate object will be instantiated and called as such:
 * $obj = TopVotedCandidate($persons, $times);
 * $ret_1 = $obj->q($t);
 */