Creating an adjacency List for DFS - c++

Question

I'm having trouble creating a Depth First Search for my program. So far I have a class of edges and a class of regions. I want to store all the connected edges inside one node of my region. I can tell if something is connected by the getKey() function I have already implemented. If two edges have the same key, then they are connected. For the next region, I want to store another set of connected edges inside that region, etc etc. However, I am not fully understanding DFS and I'm having some trouble implementing it. I'm not sure when/where to call DFS again. Any help would be appreciated!
class edge
{
private:
int source, destination, length;
int key;
edge *next;
public:
getKey(){ return key; }
}
class region
{
edge *data;
edge *next;
region() { data = new edge(); next = NULL; }
};
void runDFS(int i, edge **edge, int a)
{
region *head = new region();
aa[i]->visited == true;//mark the first vertex as true
for(int v = 0; v < a; v++)
{
if(tem->edge[i].getKey() == tem->edge[v].getKey()) //if the edges of the vertex have the same root
{
if(head->data == NULL)
{
head->data = aa[i];
head->data->next == NULL;
} //create an edge
if(head->data)
{
head->data->next = aa[i];
head->data->next->next == NULL;
}//if there is already a node connected to ti
}
if(aa[v]->visited == false)
runDFS(v, edge, a); //call the DFS again
} //for loop
}

Answer 1

assuming n is total number of edges, k is final number of regions.
Creating adjacency list for the requisite DFS might be too costly O(n^2) (if k=1 i.e. all edges belong to same region) and hence dfs will cost you O(V+E) i.e. O(n^2) in the worst case.
Otherwise problem is easily solvable in O(n * log(k)) as follows:
Traverse through all edges adding them to the head of corresponding regions (using balanced bst eg. stl-map) [you may use hashing for this too]
traverse through all the regions and connect them in requisite linear fashion
No guaranteed O(n) solution exists for the problem I guess..

Answer 2

I tried to implement a adjacency list creating function.The next pointer of adj_list struct takes you down the adjacency list(there is no relationship between 2 nodes connected by next) and the list pointer is the adjacency list. The node has the address of the adj_list which has its adjacency list.
struct node{
int id;
adj_list* adj;
};
struct adj_list{
adj_list* next;
adj_list* list;
node* n;
adj_list(node& _n){
n = &(_n);
next = NULL;
list = NULL;
}
};
node* add_node(int id,std::queue<int> q , node* root)
{
node* n = new node(id);
adj_list* adj = new adj_list(*n);
n->adj = adj;
if(root == NULL){
return n;
}
std::queue<adj_list*> q1;
while(1){
adj_list* iter = root->adj;
if(q.empty())break;
int k = q.front();
q.pop();
while(iter){
if(iter->n->id == k){
q1.push(iter);
adj_list* temp = iter->list;
iter->list = new adj_list(*n);
break;
}
iter = iter->next;
}
}
adj_list* iter = root->adj;
while(iter->next){
iter = iter->next;
}
iter->next = adj;
while(!q1.empty()){
adj_list* temp = q1.front();
q1.pop();
adj->list = temp;
adj = temp;
}
return root;
}