Named parameters are not available in any PHP 7 version

[flowl]

Named parameters like in

$requestBuilder->setAccountDetails($receiverId = 'DE');

are not available in any PHP 7 version yet.

It is a feature planned for PHP 8 with people trying to backport it to PHP 7 but it has not yet been merged.

RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/named_params
Merge request: php/php-src#5357
Version poc: https://3v4l.org/OoPIe

[moehrenzahn]

Hi flowl, thanks for your feedback!

This is not a named parameter, it is valid PHP syntax to illustrate what kind of value should be passed to the setAccountDetails method.

[flowl]

Just pointing out, it works because of the order beeing correct, not because of the named parameters.

While this works:

$requestBuilder->setShipperAddress(
    $name = 'Jane Doe',
    $countryCode = 'DE',
    $postalCode = '53113',
    $city = 'Bonn',
    $streetName = 'Sträßchensweg',
    $streetNumber = '2'
);

This doesn't:

$requestBuilder->setShipperAddress(
    $city = 'Bonn',
    $postalCode = '53113',
    $streetNumber = '2',
    $streetName = 'Sträßchensweg',
    $countryCode = 'DE',
    $name = 'Jane Doe',
);

[ngolatka]

@flowl Just a comment, but did you notice there is a trailing comma in your non-working example after "Jane Doe"?

[flowl]

@ngolatka no, but it doesn't work with removed comma either because named parameters are coming in PHP 8 if they don't merge it in PHP 7.5 or 7.4 latest