title: Laravel-4 Carbon throwing toString() error when formatting date
body: <p>In my projects index view I am returning the database fields including when a project starts. However the date format in sql only allows the format <code>0000-00-00</code> and I want to view it in <code>d-m-Y</code>. </p>
  
  <p>I want to use <a href="https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon#api-formatting" rel="nofollow">Carbon</a> to achieve this as it seems like a versatile plugin to use. However I'm not sure how to get it to work, I've added it into my app.php file as so:</p>
  
  <p><code>'Carbon'          =&gt; 'Carbon/Carbon'</code> </p>
  
  <p>And I'm trying to format it as so in my index.blade.php</p>
  
  <pre><code>@foreach ($projects as $project)
     &lt;div class="one-third column"&gt;
  
      &lt;ul class="data"&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;label&gt;Project Name: &lt;/label&gt;{{ $project-&gt;project_name }}&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;&lt;label&gt;Project Brief&lt;/label&gt;{{ $project-&gt;project_brief }}&lt;/li&gt;
      $format = 'Y-m-d';
      $brief = $project-&gt;brief;
      &lt;label&gt;Created: &lt;/label&gt;&lt;li&gt;{{ Carbon::createFromFormat($format, $brief) }}&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  @endforeach 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However I get thrown the following error:</p>
  
  <p><code>Method Illuminate\View\View::__toString() must not throw an exception</code></p>
  
  <p>Not really sure where I'm going wrong as I've never used it before. Anyone have any experience with Carbon that can help me out??</p>