From 5b2e5f5fb954c861b005b049ceee7240ca7652df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Halbritter <halbritl@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 15:03:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] The formatDate() helper method now returns an empty strin, if
 the input date is null. As yet it returned the current date.

---
 app/Http/helpers.php | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/app/Http/helpers.php b/app/Http/helpers.php
index 5fb996f..bac1e9f 100644
--- a/app/Http/helpers.php
+++ b/app/Http/helpers.php
@@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ function swapComma(string $floatString) {
  */
 function formatDate($date, $format='d.m.Y')
 {
+    if (is_null($date)) {
+        return '';
+    }
+
     return Carbon\Carbon::parse($date)->format($format);
 }