Customise number of links shown in Laravel pagination on query results - php

Question

I'm using Laravel's Pagination feature on my query in my application that's returned as a JSON response back to my front-end (it's a Laravel Rest API)
/**
* Applications
*/
public function getApplications()
{
$applications = Application::orderBy('created_at', 'desc')
->paginate(25);
foreach ($applications as $key => $applicant) {
try {
$applications[$key]['data'] = json_decode($applicant['data']);
} catch (\Exception $e) { }
}
return $applications;
}
/**
* All applications
*
* #param Request $request
*/
public function applications(Request $request)
{
try {
// daily graphs
$applications = $this->getApplications();
// not set or nothing to report
if (!$applications) {
return response()->json([
'success' => false,
'msg' => 'No applications found, check back in a few minutes',
], 422);
}
// return the response
return response()->json([
'success' => true,
'msg' => 'Icicle applications',
'applications' => $applications ?? null
], 200);
} catch (\Exception $e) {
// return default template
return response()->json([
'success' => false,
'msg' => 'We were unable to load applications right now',
], 422);
}
}
However, the default number of links shown on the page start at 1, and proceed to 10 which is too many for me and I'd like to reduce them down to show fewer links, for example, 1 through to 5.
I can't seem to find any documentation on how to configure the paginator here, and since it's not a view, how can I reduce the links down? Am I missing some configuration?

Answer 1

The documentation suggests doing this inside your blade template:
{{ $users->onEachSide(5)->links() }}
/**
* Applications
*/
public function getApplications()
{
$paginator = Application::orderBy('created_at', 'desc')
->paginate(25);
return array_merge($paginator, [
'pages' => $paginator->getUrlRange(1, 10)
]);
}