Pagination not working

I'm new to this forum, apperently it renders the html automaticly, but hopefully you guys get the gist and otherwise could anyone explain to me how I prevent it from doing so and show the code?

Please format your code by putting 3 backticks ``` on a line before and after each code block

if you are getting the view with a search and are passing a parameter to the controller, you have to tell Laravel to append the search term to the links for the additional pages

https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/pagination#displaying-pagination-results

Look for Appending to Pagination Links

And in my case how would that work? That changes just the url being used, not the result. And what do you mean if you're using a search, every select querry is a search and on the index page it works fine. This is what I do where it works: Controller:

    {
        $posts = Post::orderBy('id', 'DESC')->where('category_id', 1)->where('sub_category_id',2)->paginate(20);
        $categories = Category::all();
        return view('posts.index', compact('posts', 'categories'));
    }```

view:
```  <div class="row">
        @if(!$posts->isEmpty())
            @foreach($posts as $post)
                <div class="col-lg-3 colfmd-4 col-sm-6 mb-4">
                    <div class="card h-100">
                        <a href="#"><img class="card-img-top" src="{{!$post->photos->isEmpty()? $post->photos->first()->path: asset(url('images/design/placeholder.png'))}}" alt=""></a>
                        <div class="card-body">
                            <h4 class="card-title">
                                <a href="{{url('/posts/'.$post->id)}}" style="color: #221E21">{{$post->title}}</a>
                            </h4>
                            <p style="color: #221E21">{{substr($post->body,0, 250)}}</p>
                            <p style="bottom: 0; position: absolute; background-color: #57b846; left:50%; transform: translate(-50%)"><a href="{{url('/posts/'.$post->id)}}"><i class="fa fa-arrow-circle-left"></i>Lees meer<i class="fa fa-arrow-circle-right"></i> </a></p>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            @endforeach
        @endif
    </div>
    <!-- /.row -->

    <!-- Pagination -->
    <ul class="pagination justify-content-center">
        {{$posts->links()}}
    </ul>```

Please format your code by putting 3 backticks ``` on a line before and after each code block

This is what I do where it works:

Yes, but I can't see what you do when it does not work. Please edit your original question.

I cant edit so I'll repost...

The controller:

    {
        $posts = Post::orderBy('id', 'DESC')->where('category_id', DB::table('categories')->where('name', $request->category)->value('id'))->paginate(8);
        $posts->withPath('search');
        return view('search.searchResults', compact('posts'));´´´
    }

The view
``` <div class="row">
        @if(!$posts->isEmpty())
            @foreach($posts as $post)
                <div class="col-lg-3 colfmd-4 col-sm-6 mb-4">
                    <div class="card h-100">
                        <a href="#"><img class="card-img-top"
                                         src="{{!$post->photos->isEmpty()? $post->photos->first()->path: asset(url('images/design/placeholder.png'))}}"
                                         alt=""></a>
                        <div class="card-body">
                            <h4 class="card-title">
                                <a href="{{url('/sexdating/man_zkt_man/'.$post->id)}}"
                                   style="color: #221E21">{{$post->title}}</a>
                            </h4>
                            <p style="color: #221E21">{{substr($post->body,0, 250)}}</p>
                            <p style="bottom: 0; position: absolute; background-color: #57b846; left:50%; transform: translate(-50%)">
                                <a href="{{url('/sexdating/man_zkt_man/'.$post->id)}}"><i
                                        class="fa fa-arrow-circle-left"></i>Lees meer<i
                                        class="fa fa-arrow-circle-right"></i> </a></p>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            @endforeach
        @endif
    </div>
    <!-- /.row -->

    <!-- Pagination -->
    <ul class="pagination justify-content-center">
        {{ $posts->links() }}
    </ul>

</div>´´´


As you see basicly the same

ok, still not formatted correctly ``` goes on their own lines.. but whatever

so the only bit that matters is

        $posts = Post::orderBy('id', 'DESC')->where('category_id', DB::table('categories')->where('name', $request->category)->value('id'))->paginate(8);

You need $request->category for your query to work on pages 2+

You can pass it along by using the appends() method I suggested.

        $posts = Post::orderBy('id', 'DESC')->where('category_id', DB::table('categories')->where('name', $request->category)->value('id'))->paginate(8)->appends(['category'=>$request->category]);

not sure what the purpose of withPath is unless you have a route that matches? Probably need to remove that.

Thanks Snapey for your patience, that worked, awesome, thanks again... I came across this same problem multiple times on different platforms, when doing a search and no one came up with your solution...