Function in a function

[Anon]

Hi,

I'm getting a very weird error.

I've written a little function to tell me the first Monday in April for any given year.

I want this function to default to checking the current year's April. I tried with the code:

function FirstMonday($FinancialYear=date("Y"))
{
function code
}

and call the function using:

FirstMonday();

but I get the following error:

Parse error: parse error, expecting `')''

If I amend the code to:

function FirstMonday($FinancialYear)
{
function code
}

and call the fuction using:

FirstMonday(date("Y"));

This works fine.

Can anyone tell me what I was doing wrong?

Thanks

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You can't use functions as default values, only strings and constants.

[Anon]

Oh well, thanks for clearing that up.