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 there is no 15th month. But how can i "ignore" the error message? Great would be something like

if (Carbon::parse($date) != error) Carbon::parse($date);
else echo 'invalid date, enduser understands the error message';

Answer 1

Pass Laravel's validation before use it. Create a validator like this:

     protected function validator(array $data)
{
    //$data would be an associative array like ['date_value' => '15.15.2015']
    $message = [
        'date_value.date' => 'invalid date, enduser understands the error message'
    ];
    return Validator::make($data, [
        'date_value' => 'date',
    ],$message);
}

And call him right before use your date:

$this->validator(['date_value' => $date])->validate();
// $this->validator(request()->all())->validate(); you can pass the whole request if fields names are the same

Carbon::parse($date);

You can add all your desired fields to validator and apply multiple validations handling every message or using the default message. This would be the way if you are validating User's input