Carbon (laravel) deal with invalid date

Question

I have a quite simple problem.. I use the Carbon::parse($date) function with $date = \'15.15.2015\'. Of course it can not return a valid string because

Answer 1

You can catch the exception raised by Carbon like this:

try {
    Carbon::parse($date);
} catch (\Exception $e) {
    echo 'invalid date, enduser understands the error message';
}