Laravel Custom Pagination - php

Question

Having problems getting my pagination to work in Laravel 5.2 I use a foreach to generate a list of objects where each object has a certain ranking. (competition)
The first query I used was this one:
$goedeDoelen = GoedDoel::orderBy('punten', 'desc')->simplePaginate(5);
This worked pretty ok, only problem was that my ranking would reset everything I would go to a different page.
Example: Page 1 has objects from rank 1 - 5, page 2 should have ranks 6-10. By using the first Paginate method, the second page would have objects starting from 1 again.
I have tried to work around this by adding the ranking as an extra attribute to my Eloquent collections.
$ranking = GoedDoel::orderBy('punten', 'desc')->get();
foreach($ranking as $key => $item) {
$item->ranking = $key+1;
}
After that I tried to use ->simplePaginate() on my updated collection. This gave an error.
I have created a custom Paginator.
$goedeDoelen = new Paginator($ranking, 5);
This isn't working as intended. When I go to my second page, the URL messes up and goes to another view.
How can I make sure the Paginator knows what my current URL is to which it has to apply the ?page=2

Answer 1

You need to use the paginate() method.
$goedeDoelen = GoedDoel::orderBy('punten', 'desc')->paginate(5);
{!! $goedeDoelen->links() !!}

Answer 2

The following Code illustrates manual pagination in Laravel
Sample Controller
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Pagination\LengthAwarePaginator as Paginator;
use App\Models\UserRechargeDetails;
class PaginateController extends Controller
{
//
public function index(Request $request)
{
$user_1 = new UserRechargeDetails;
// Get records from Database
$items = $user_1->all();
// Store records in an array
$records = [];
$i = 0;
foreach($items as $item)
{
$records[$i][0] = $item->user_name;
$records[$i][1] = $item->rech_mobile;
$i++;
}
// Current page for pagination
$page = $request->page;
// Manually slice array of product to display on page
$perPage = 2;
$offset = ($page-1) * $perPage;
$data = array_slice($records, $offset, $perPage);
// Your pagination
$final_data = new Paginator($data, count($records), $perPage, $page, ['path' => $request->url(),'query' => $request->query(),]);
/*
For Display links, you may add it in view page
{{ $data->links('pagination::bootstrap-4') }}
*/
return view('admin.pagination_new', ['data' => $final_data, 'j' => 1]);
}
}