Trying to make custom pagination

Hi, I have been trying to create custom pagination for my data because I'm merging three arrays. But, I'm struggling with mapping my merged data to the same structure as Laravel would do if I would use ->paginate(x) on the model.

Is there a way in Laravel to use the predefined Pagination resource or is there a way to make it look similar?

I have almost achieve this but I think the code is too ugly and would like to know if there is a better way.

Here is my custom pagination function:

function customPaginate($items, $perPage = 20, $page = null, $search = null, $options = [])
{
    $page = $page ?: (Paginator::resolveCurrentPage() ?: 1);

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

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

    $paginationData = [
        'data' => $paginator->items(),
        'links' => [
            'first' => $paginator->url(1),
            'last' => $paginator->url($paginator->lastPage()),
            'prev' => $paginator->previousPageUrl(),
            'next' => $paginator->nextPageUrl(),
        ],
        'meta' => [
            'current_page' => $paginator->currentPage(),
            'from' => $paginator->firstItem(),
            'last_page' => $paginator->lastPage(),
            'links' => collect($paginator->getUrlRange(1, $paginator->lastPage()))->values()->map(function ($url, $page) use ($paginator, $search) {
                $url = 'http://localhost:8000' . $url . ($search ? '&search=' . urlencode($search) : '');

                return [
                    'url' => $page == $paginator->currentPage() ? null : $url,
                    'label' => $page,
                    'active' => $page == $paginator->currentPage(),
                ];
            })->toArray(),
            'path' => $paginator->url(1),
            'per_page' => $paginator->perPage(),
            'to' => $paginator->lastItem(),
            'total' => $paginator->total(),
        ],
    ];

    return $paginationData;
}

And here is how I have been using it:

public function index(Request $request)
    {
        $request->request->add(['domains' => \App\Domain::whereNull("deleted_at")->count()]);
        $request->request->add(['populate' => "type"]);

        $vendors = VendorResource::collection(Vendor::select('name', 'settings')->where('name', 'like', '%' . $request->search . '%')->get(), $request)->collection->toArray();
        $services = ServiceResource::collection(Service::select('name', 'settings')->where('name', 'like', '%' . $request->search . '%')->get(), $request)->collection->toArray();
        $cookies = CookieResource::collection(Cookie::select('name', 'display_name', 'type', 'category_id')->where('name', 'like', '%' . $request->search . '%')->get(), $request)->collection->toArray();

        $results = array_merge($vendors, $services, $cookies);

        $paginatedResults = customPaginate($results, 18, $request->page, $request->search);

        return $paginatedResults;
    }
}