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

Try this

$birth_date = Carbon::createFromFormat('dmy', $birth_date_mark)->startOfDay();
if ($birth_date->format('dmy') !== $birth_date_mark) {
     throw new OperationException(trans('exception.invalid_birth_date'));
}