Question

I currently have this code.

function outputCalendarByDateRange($client, $startDate="2011-06-22", 
                               $endDate='2011-06-26') 

I want $startDate and $endDate to reflect today’s date and the date three days from now with it automatically updating. I’ve tried using

$startDate=date("Y-m-D")
$endDate=strtotime(date("Y-m-d", strtotime($todayDate)) . " +3 days");

and

$date1=date("Y-m-D")
$date2=strtotime(date("Y-m-d", strtotime($todayDate)) . " +3 days");
    function outputCalendarByDateRange($client, $startDate=$date1, 
                               $endDate=$date2)

none of these work. How do I make it work?

Thanks!

Answer 1

you can’t use a statement in a function declaration, but you can set the value to null and check it at runtime:

function foo( $bar = null )
{
  if (is_null($bar))
  {
    $bar = 'baz';
  }
  ...code...
}