Non Medium member: view this on busy.org or watch it on my Youtube channel or install the package.
Laravel supports eloquent model pagination out of the box, but not custom collection. This quick tutorial will show you an easy way to paginate any collections.
Understanding how Laravel Paginator works
If we dive into Laravel’s query builder source code:
I will briefly explain what Laravel is doing here line by line.
- Resolving the current page number in the query metadata.
- Resolving the chunking size ($perPage parameter).
- Splitting the query results into chunks and get the specific chunk/page that we are after.
- Generate a paginator response which includes the pagination metadata and result chunk.
