Handling Empty Paginated Collections

So I am having a problem. To start, my skill level is probably not as advanced as many users here so sometimes even little things that may seem obvious give me some grief.

I am grabbing some DB results from a query and paginating them from the controller. I want to show some sort of feedback to the user if no results were returned from their search. The problem is when I dump the variable, I am returning a Illuminate\Pagination\LengthAwarePaginator Object and all of the properties are protected so I clearly can't access them.

So, my question is, what kind of conditional do you use to check if a collection returned 0 results in a view so you can give feedback to the user?

JeffreyWay

11 years ago

Best Answer

Level 59

@unless (count($items))
    <p>Unfortunately, no items were returned.</p>
@endunless

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hasnatbabur

4 years ago

Level 1

$paginator = User::paginate(10); OR $paginator = User::simplePaginate(10);

Now you can check if paginator has items in it or not like this:

if($paginator->isNotEmpty()){ //// }

if($paginator->isEmpty()){ //// }

This is more efficient way checking if pagination has items. Thanks

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