How PHP helped me solve the Rubik’s cube

I was set a challenge last week to complete a Rubik’s cube after tinkering with one by a colleagues desk and managing to get a complete line of matching colours with little effort. In the past i’ve never fully understood the concept and complexity of how to complete this popular 80′s puzzle. However the same way as a programmer I work out the right way to complete a coding issue by using a set of pointers and algorithms, the same is applies to completing the Rubik’s cube. There are a set of specific moves or algorithms that have to be repeated in come cases in order to get certain pieces in the correct place, the same logic of which can be applied to PHP, and indeed most programming languages, it’s this programming logic that allowed me to complete the Rubik’s cube. Although don’t ask me to do it again! In the end it actually took me about an hour to complete but this was after re-doing the first two rows many times so many I can’t count. So if you want any tips to solving the puzzle let me know fairly quickly as I will probably forget before too long.