Doing a bit of coding, and wanted to set a default value of today's date for an argument in a function that I have. However, having a bit of problems having it work and have it still be dynamic. This is current setup, where I have static values assigned to certain function arguments.
private function search($text, $startDate = "2012-10-19", $endDate = "2012-10-20") {
//code goes here
}
Not what I want, but it's what works, and the IDE doesnt' complain.
This is what I've tried, with the corresponding complaints from the interpreter
private function search($text, $startDate = $this->getCurrentDate(), $endDate = "2012-10-20") {
//code goes here
}
returns "syntax error, unexpected $this", where getCurrentDate refers to a private function that only returns a string. Same co-occurrence happens when I call a variable declared in class scope (minus the brackets at the end of getCurrentDate of course). Utilizing static brings up "Undefined class constant 'self::getCurrentDate ' ", regardless of whether I call it as a function or a class scope variable which is odd since I've defined it as such.
private static function getDate() {
return "foo";
}
and
private static $getTodaysDate = date("M-d-Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, date("M"), date("d"), date("Y")));
in my two different attempts. Of course this
private function search($text, $startDate = date("M-d-Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, date("M"), date("d"), date("Y"))), $endDate = "2012-10-20") {
//code goes here
}
doesn't work at all.
So I'm sure it's just some obvious thing I'm missing, but I cannot see why PHP is not allowing me to do this without declaring a static string, or if I'm running against a limitation of the language. Anyone have any ideas as to what's the cause?
