How to do this?

Does this explain it well? https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/generating-a-route-with-a-query-string-parameter

@bashy That sorta explains it, but what I need is a way to get what page a certain object is on.

Redirected where? away from the single post he was commenting on to the list? or is he able to comment direct from the listed view?

@Penderis He gets redirected to the thread, to the last page (if there is any).

ok if you are sure it will be the last or only page, I do not know the paginator too well but look into just jumping to the last page by default if not possible go to normal route but with a optional parameter that if set will have the controller return reversed results making the last page the first page. so normal url is maybe my/posts where as this on if set is my/posts/reversed , normal links will still work but redirect can then just add this extra parameter.

But like I said I do not have much experience with that and I would solve it this way at first anyway.

Something like this?

$page = ceil(($posts_before + 1) / X); // X = pagination number

@bashy Thank you! I will try that.

EDIT: How would I get $postsBefore?

It would be current reply ID minus topic ID? I don't know what your DB structure is like.

@bashy I just tried that, and I'm getting negative numbers for some reason.

Some info:

• I'm currently showing 3 posts per page
• The thread I'm testing on has 3 pages
• For my search feature, it links to the thread, then adds the page query string, then adds a "fragment" (#post-x)

I have no clue why I'm getting negative numbers.

My code:

    public function getPageNumberAttribute()
    {
        $topic = $this->topic;

        $posts_before = $topic->id - $this->id;

        $page = ceil(($posts_before + 1) / 3);

        return $page;
    }

    public function getRouteAttribute()
    {
        $url = route('forum.get.show.thread', ['slug' => $this->topic->slug, 'id' => $this->topic->id]);

        if ($this->topic->postsPaginated->hasPages())
        {
            $url .= '?page=' . $this->pageNumber;
        }

        $url .= '#post-' . $this->id;

        return $url;
    }

"postsPaginated" is just an object on my Topic model that returns the posts for the topic, but as a Paginator instance.

Any idea what's going on?...

Topic ID will be less than the reply ID so you have it the wrong way around?