Laravel Pagination merge - php

Question

I'm using laravel 4 for my project .
I have paginated select results from 4 tables and I wanted to pass them to view in one variable .
$vehicles = DB::table('vehicle')->orderBy('postTime','DESC')->paginate(8);
$estates = DB::table('estate')->orderBy('postTime','DESC')->paginate(8);
$tradings = DB::table('trading')->orderBy('postTime','DESC')->paginate(8);
$jobs = DB::table('job')->orderBy('postTime','DESC')->paginate(8);
but I could not merge them using array_merge() . I also tried ->to_array() after paginate, it didn't work.
can some one help me here ?
EDIT
as #Turgut Sarıçam suggested , I used getItems() for my results and here is my code :
public static function index(){
$minVehicle = DB::table('vehicle')->min('price');
$maxVehicle = DB::table('vehicle')->max('price');
$minEstate = DB::table('estate')->min('price');
$maxEstate = DB::table('estate')->max('price');
$minTrading = DB::table('trading')->min('price');
$maxTrading = DB::table('trading')->max('price');
if($minVehicle == 'توافقی')
$minVehicle = 0;
if($maxVehicle == 'توافقی')
$maxVehicle = 0;
if($minEstate == 'توافقی')
$minEstate = 0;
if($maxEstate == 'توافقی')
$maxEstate = 0;
if($minTrading == 'توافقی')
$minTrading = 0;
if($maxTrading == 'توافقی')
$maxTrading = 0;
$vehicles = DB::table('vehicle')->orderBy('postTime','DESC')->paginate(8);
$estates = DB::table('estate')->orderBy('postTime','DESC')->paginate(8);
$tradings = DB::table('trading')->orderBy('postTime','DESC')->paginate(8);
$jobs = DB::table('job')->orderBy('postTime','DESC')->paginate(8);
$allResults = array_merge($vehicles,$jobs);
//echo "<meta charset='UTF8'><pre>";
//return die(print_r($allResults));
return View::make('search')->with(
array(
'minVehicle' => $minVehicle,
'maxVehicle' => $maxVehicle,
'minEstate' => $minEstate,
'maxEstate' => $maxEstate,
'minTrading' => $minTrading,
'maxTrading' => $maxTrading,
'ads' => $allResults
)
);
}
Dumping $allResults (where I commented) had some results.
I cant show the exact result , but here is example of it :
Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 243
[tableName] => vehicle
)
[1] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 239
[tableName] => vehicle
)
[2] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 235
[tableName] => vehicle
)
[3] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 231
[tableName] => vehicle
)
[4] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 227
[tableName] => vehicle
)
[5] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 223
[tableName] => vehicle
)
[6] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 219
[tableName] => vehicle
)
[7] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 215
[tableName] => vehicle
)
[8] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 4
[tableName] => job
)
[9] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 3
[tableName] => job
)
)
although the result seems to be fair , no view was returned . just a blank white page

Answer 1

You should get the items first. Try like this:
$allResults = array_merge($vehicles->items(), $estates->items(), $tradings->items(), $jobs->items());
Edit: I guess you can get items with getItems() function in Laravel 4. Above is for Laravel 5, my bad.

Answer 2

You are dealing with collections that are returned from the query. Don't think array merge is correct way to go Try using collection merge.
Collection merge is supported as well in laravel 4.
Try using this
$merged_collection = $vehicles->merge($estates)->merge($tradings)->merge($jobs);