PHP - Laravel Syntax Error, Unexpected 'catch' (t_catch)

I am new to the Laravel Framework, doing an internship and at the very end.. I need some assistance please with some try catch error, Its supposed to throw an error if the site name is already in the database.. If someone could help me please and thank you ..   ```   public function create()
         {
                return View::make('edit.create');
         }
         
         public function edit( $clientsite )
        
         {
                return View::make('edit.edit', compact('clientsite'));
         }
         public function saveCreate()
         {
                $input = Input::all();
                
        try
            {
                
                $clientsite = new ClientSite;
                $clientsite->siteName = $input['siteName'];
                $clientsite->description = $input['description'];
                $clientsite->launchDate = $input['launchDate'];
                $clientsite->save();
             
                
                //ClientSite::whereSiteName($clientsite->siteName)->first();
                ClientSite::where('siteName', $clientsite->siteName)->first();
                $clientID = $clientsite['clientID'];//getting clientID for use in join query
                            //queries for retrieving features of each group for the selected client
                $clientFeatures = DB::table('features')->join('clientFeatures', function($join) use($clientID)
{
                $join->on( 'clientFeatures.featureID', '=', 'features.featureID')
                ->where('clientFeatures.clientID', '=', $clientID);
                })->get();
                $groupIDs = array();
                foreach ($clientFeatures as $c) {
                $groupIDs[] = $c->groupID;
                
}

            catch(\Illuminate\Database\QueryException $e)
{
                return View::make('profiles.clientProfiles')->with('clientsite',$clientsite)
                ->with('groupIDs',$groupIDs)
                ->with('clientFeatures',$clientFeatures)
                ->with('status','<strong>'.$siteName.' Site already exist!</strong>');

                ;  
                
         
            } ``` https://github.com/webdevdea/MyDyn ( i have not pushed these changes because I have an error )