PHP Default Function Parameter values, how to ‘pass default value’ for ‘not last’ parameters?

PHP doesn’t support what you’re trying to do. The usual solution to this problem is to pass an array of arguments: function funcName($params = array()) { $defaults = array( // the defaults will be overidden if set in $params ‘value1’ => ‘1’, ‘value2’ => ‘2’, ); $params = array_merge($defaults, $params); echo $params[‘value1’] . ‘, ‘ … Read more

Symfony2 Setting a default choice field selection

You can define the default value from the ‘data’ attribute. This is part of the Abstract “field” type (http://symfony.com/doc/2.0/reference/forms/types/field.html) $form = $this->createFormBuilder() ->add(‘status’, ‘choice’, array( ‘choices’ => array( 0 => ‘Published’, 1 => ‘Draft’ ), ‘data’ => 1 )) ->getForm(); In this example, ‘Draft’ would be set as the default selected value.

How to set a Django model field’s default value to a function call / callable (e.g., a date relative to the time of model object creation)

The question is misguided. When creating a model field in Django, you are not defining a function, so function default values are irrelevant: from datetime import datetime, timedelta class MyModel(models.Model): # default to 1 day from now my_date = models.DateTimeField(default=datetime.now() + timedelta(days=1)) This last line is not defining a function; it is invoking a function … Read more