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

another solution would be to handle the exception globally.

• in app/Exceptions/Handler.php

use Carbon\Exceptions\InvalidFormatException;

• then in the render method check if an exception is thrown by Carbon

    if ($exception instanceof InvalidFormatException) {
            return response()->json([
                'status' => 'fail',
                'data' => [
                    'message' => 'Invalid date formate!'
                ]
            ], 400);
        }