How to check whether the current year is a leap year in PHP?

A leap year is a year that has 366 days that Includes an extra day in February. It occurs once every 4 years with the next leap year occurring in 2020. You would think that finding a leap year would Involve some complex calculation. But, in PHP it is just a single line of code that determines whether the current year is a Leap Year or not.

It uses the date library function.

date("L");

This returns a boolean value. 1 being that the current year is a leap year and 0 if it is not.