Dynamic data in fixtures

Hello all,

today I started with unit testing with SimpleTest and ran into a
problem. In some model i have a method 'findToday', which finds
records where 'day' is set to today's date. It's is a very simple
function which works but to become familiar with unit testing I wrote
a test en a fixture for it. While writing the fixture I realized that
the 'day' field had to be dynamic for the tests to succeed so i made a
variable $today which contains todays date date('Y/m/d'). This
variable I put in the fixed data.
I ran the test and it gave me an error:
'Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '(', expecting ',' or ';'
in ........ on line 18'
I ran in to some information which said that fixture data is really
fixed, so there can't be any dynamic data in it.
How should I fix this problem? I don't want to update my fixtures
every time I want to test my function.

Greetz Jacob

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