Laravel Pagination with array_merge - php

Question

I have 2 table which name incomes and expenses and I want to show all the data in one view with laravel pagination. For this, I Merged two array with array_merge().
$incomes = Income::where('user_id', Auth::User()->id)->get()->toArray();
$expenses = Expense::where('user_id', Auth::User()->id)->get()->toArray();
foreach ($incomes as $key => $value) {
$incomes[$key]['type'] = 'income';
}
foreach ($expenses as $key => $value) {
$expenses[$key]['type'] = 'expense';
}
$results = array_merge($incomes, $expenses);
How can I paginate this $results?

Answer 1

You can do this in two ways:
Laravel's built in manually creating a paginator functionality.
Get the results from tables using UNION.
Using UNION
$incomes = Income::where('user_id', Auth::User()->id);
$data = Expense::where('user_id', Auth::User()->id)->union($incomes)->paginate(10);
For manually creating a paginator, please see https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/pagination#manually-creating-a-paginator
Add the following to Income Model
protected $appends = ['type'];
public function getTypeAttribute()
{
return 'Income';
}
Add the following to Expense Model
protected $appends = ['type'];
public function getTypeAttribute()
{
return 'Expense';
}
This will add the type key in the query results.