How to paginate Laravel collection?

See this gist that someone posted on collections https://gist.github.com/vluzrmos/3ce756322702331fdf2bf414fea27bcb

You do mean as in array collection, not a result set? Otherwise refer to https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/pagination

Also look over the collection methods https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/collections

Thanks for reply.

But how to use function from gist https://gist.github.com/vluzrmos/3ce756322702331fdf2bf414fea27bcb?

For example I have collection $items, I want to return view with this collection:

return view('index')->with('items', $items);

And how I should implement pagination in view? Like this?

{{ $items->links() }}

Just use ->paginate(10) instead of ->get() and not just chained on the end of the working query.

If this does not help you will need to post some code.

Guys, method paginate() doesnt work with collections.

$date = new Carbon;
$date->subDays(16);

$items1 = Item::where('created_at', '<', $date->toDateTimeString())->get();

$items2 = Item::where('created_at', '>', $date->toDateTimeString())->orderBy('created_at', 'desc')->get();

$items = $items2->merge($items1); // I need paginate this

return view('welcome')->with('items', $items);

You can not paginate the collection but you can subdivide it with the method chunk of collection.

$chunks = $books->chunk(2);
$chunks->toArray();

result

[
   [
      ['title' => 'Lean Startup', 'price' => 10],
      ['title' => 'The One Thing', 'price' => 15]
   ],
   [
      ['title' => 'Laravel: Code Bright', 'price' => 20],
      ['title' => 'The 4-Hour Work Week', 'price' => 5],
   ]
]

The gist proposed by @jlrdw at the start of the answers is pagination for collections?

Yeah. This gist is working.

// ...
$items = $items2->merge($items1);
$items = $this->paginate($items);
// ...
public function paginate($items, $perPage = 15, $page = null, $options = [])
{
    $page = $page ?: (Paginator::resolveCurrentPage() ?: 1);
    $items = $items instanceof Collection ? $items : Collection::make($items);
    return new LengthAwarePaginator($items->forPage($page, $perPage), $items->count(), $perPage, $page, $options);
}

You can add this method as Collection method in AppServiceProvider. just add this in boot method.

if (!Collection::hasMacro('paginate')) {

        Collection::macro('paginate', 
            function ($perPage = 15, $page = null, $options = []) {
            $page = $page ?: (Paginator::resolveCurrentPage() ?: 1);
            return (new LengthAwarePaginator(
                $this->forPage($page, $perPage), $this->count(), $perPage, $page, $options))
                ->withPath('');
        });
}

then you can use it as usual - $items->paginate(10);

@ARMATA - Thanks :) Helped a lot

@ARMATA - Works fins. One problem though, it shows pages from the root of the site while my on a subpage.

For example I have /search page but pagination links are generated as /?page=1

@ARMATA - Ok I fixed it with passing a parameter.

    public function paginate($items, $perPage = 15, $page = null, 
$baseUrl = null, 
     $options = [])
    {
        $page = $page ?: (Paginator::resolveCurrentPage() ?: 1);

        $items = $items instanceof Collection ? 
                       $items : Collection::make($items);

        $lap = new LengthAwarePaginator($items->forPage($page, $perPage), 
                           $items->count(),
                           $perPage, $page, $options);

        if ($baseUrl) {
            $lap->setPath($baseUrl);
        }

        return $lap;
    }

exactly the same issue is mine now. did you get any solution?

thanks

@amirgee007 post your question, your situation may be different

Boss it fixed.

Thank you.

using your solution but same it showing pages with base URL, not with exact URLs.

Solution for your problem is here https://gist.github.com/iamsajidjaved/4bd59517e4364ecec98436debdc51ecc

@armata thank you, it fixed

Here is a nice solution with a macro: https://gist.github.com/simonhamp/549e8821946e2c40a617c85d2cf5af5e

Or, use the following Spatie package that implements the same solution: https://github.com/spatie/laravel-collection-macros/

@maliksajid Answer is well explained. This gist is well written and explained. If you are still stuck then go read this gist.

I've been using this gist and it works beautifully: https://gist.github.com/simonhamp/549e8821946e2c40a617c85d2cf5af5e

I am currently using a 3rd party API and decided to go with this route: https://laravel-news.com/working-with-third-party-services-in-laravel

The API I'm using needs the params per_page and page for pagination:

E.g: https://this-is-my-api-domain/api/v2/products?per_page=10&page=20

Is there however a "simple" way to send the perPage/page attributes from the paginate() method to somewhere else ? Currently it works by doing

$this->users->list()->paginate(2)

And it will paginate everything from https://this-is-my-api-domain/api/v2/products

But I would love to automatically append the per_page and page attributes to the API url and have this or another package generate the links for it like Laravel does.