How to Paginate Available Collection.

Get your collection from db. All 200 records. Then create an instance of Paginator class. (for laravel 5) Like this :

$paginator = new Paginator($items->forPage($page,$per_page),$items->count(),$per_page,$page);

where $items is your collection

Am using L4.2 , I tried this way, $tutorials = Tutorial::all(); then returning $tutorials = Paginator::make($tutorials, count($tutorials), 10); but get Argument 1 passed to Illuminate\Pagination\Factory::make() must be of the type array, object given, error.

@tahertechs Follow this paginator-class

Eager load the links table.

Task::with('links')->paginate(10);

Now it will load all the related links in two queries versus one for each task.

Create a helper function like this:

function paginate($items, $perPage)
{
    $pageStart           = request('page', 1);
    $offSet              = ($pageStart * $perPage) - $perPage;
    $itemsForCurrentPage = array_slice($items, $offSet, $perPage, TRUE);

    return new Illuminate\Pagination\LengthAwarePaginator(
        $itemsForCurrentPage, count($items), $perPage,
        Illuminate\Pagination\Paginator::resolveCurrentPage(),
        ['path' => Illuminate\Pagination\Paginator::resolveCurrentPath()]
    );
}

If you want to use collections instead of arrays use this:

function paginate($items, $perPage)
{
    $pageStart = request('page', 1);
    $offSet    = ($pageStart * $perPage) - $perPage;
    $itemsForCurrentPage = $items->slice($offSet, $perPage);

    return new Illuminate\Pagination\LengthAwarePaginator(
        $itemsForCurrentPage, $items->count(), $perPage,
        Illuminate\Pagination\Paginator::resolveCurrentPage(),
        ['path' => Illuminate\Pagination\Paginator::resolveCurrentPath()]
    );
}

Pagination a collection is not a good idea, that's why there is pagination, don't be so coy. Just saw old post, but wondering how a collection of 500,000 records would work for our OP, a good grief moment. The more reason to know basics before delving deep into laravel.

An edit for the previous paginator function to make use of the Illuminate\Pagination\LengthAwarePaginator class, it works perfect for me specially for ajax calls

/**
 * Paginate a laravel colletion or array of items.
 *
 * @param  array|Illuminate\Support\Collection $items   array to paginate
 * @param  int $perPage number of pages
 * @return Illuminate\Pagination\LengthAwarePaginator    new LengthAwarePaginator instance 
 */
function paginate($items, $perPage)
{
    if(is_array($items)){
        $items = collect($items);
    }

    return new Illuminate\Pagination\LengthAwarePaginator(
        $items->forPage(Illuminate\Pagination\Paginator::resolveCurrentPage() , $perPage),
        $items->count(), $perPage,
        Illuminate\Pagination\Paginator::resolveCurrentPage(),
        ['path' => Illuminate\Pagination\Paginator::resolveCurrentPath()]
    );
}