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Check if a year is a leap year

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URL: http://reusablecode.blogspot.com

Function to check if a given year is a leap year.


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  1. <?php
  2.     /*
  3.     Copyright (c) 2008, reusablecode.blogspot.com; some rights reserved.
  4.     Thanks to Jim Mayes for showing me a more elegant solution.
  5.  
  6.     This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. To view
  7.     a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ or
  8.     send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California
  9.     94305, USA.
  10.     */
  11.  
  12.     // Check if a year is a leap year.
  13.     function isLeapYear($someYear)
  14.     {
  15.         return date("L", strtotime($someYear . "-01-01"));
  16.     }
  17. ?>

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Posted By: jimmayes on March 26, 2008

function is_leapyear($year){ return date("L", strtotime($year . "-01-01")); }

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