Laravel paginator doesn't work properly - php

Question

The laravel paginator does work, but not good in my case.
So I have a forum with comments and the paginator must display when there are more than 10 comments on that page.
So I have a topic that has more than 10 comments and then it works fine on that page, but when I go to another page, he does take the pagination of the most comments. That is not what I want.
Here are some screens and code:
Here are there more than 10 comments, so it is good that it displays the paginator. The strange thing here is that it only shows 2 comments and not 10.
Here is another topic with just 8 comments, so the pagination shouldn't display anything:
But as you can see, it does show the paginator....
My code look like this:
Controller:
public function thread($title)
{
$thread = Thread::where('title', '=', str_replace('Thread-', '',str_replace('-', ' ', $title)))->first();
$usercolor = DB::table('threads')
->join('user', 'threads.uid', '=', 'user.id')
->join('role', 'user.role_id', '=', 'role.id')
->where('threads.uid', '=', $thread->uid)
->first();
$usertitle = DB::table('threads')
->join('user', 'threads.uid', '=', 'user.id')
->where('threads.uid', '=', $thread->uid)
->first();
$comments = Comment::orderBy('posted_at', 'asc')
->where('deleted_at', '=', '0000-00-00 00:00:00')
->with('user.role')
->paginate(10);
if (!$thread) {
return die('bestaat niet!');
}else{
return View::make('thread')->with('threads', $thread)
->with('comments', $comments)
->with('usercolor', $usercolor)
->with('usertitle', $usertitle);
}
}
View:
#include('globs.header')
<div class="col-sm-offset-1 col-sm-10">
<div class="clearfix"> </div>
#if(Request::get('page', 1) == 1)
<div class="panel panel-default" id="a9">
<div class="panel-heading">
<div class="panel-title">{{ $threads->title }}
</div>
</div>
<div class="panel-body thread-row">
<div class="row thread-row">
<div class="col-md-2 col-sm-3 text-center userblock">
<div class="clerafix"> </div>
<img class="img-thumbnail avatar" src="./public/img/avatar.jpg" alt="Avatar" height="55px;" width="55px">
<div class="push_bottom_5" style="color:{{ $usercolor->colour }};"><strong>{{ $threads->username }}</strong></div>
<div class="push_bottom_5"><small>{{ $usertitle->usertitle }}</small></div>
<div class="label label-default" style="background-color:{{ $usercolor->colour }};">{{ $usercolor->name }}</div>
<div class="push_bottom_5">
#if($usercolor->id == '1')
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
#elseif($usercolor->id == '2')
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
#elseif($usercolor->id == '3')
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
#elseif($usercolor->id == '4')
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
#elseif($usercolor->id == '5')
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
#elseif($usercolor->id >= '6')
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
#endif
</div>
<div class="text-muted text-left"><small>Total Posts: 66</small></div>
<div class="text-muted text-left"><small>Joined 05-11-2014</small></div>
<div class="clerafix"> </div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-5 col-sm-6 col-xs-8">
<div class="clerafix"> </div>
<div class="text-muted"><span><i class="fa fa-calendar"></i> </span><small>
<span>Posted:</span> {{ date("d-m-Y", strtotime($threads->date_posted)) }}</small></div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-10 col-sm-9 col-xs-12">
<div class="clerafix"> </div>
<div class="content_body"><p>{{ Helper::Filter(BBCode::parse($threads->message)) }}</p>
</div>
<div class="clerafix"> </div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="panel-footer clearfix">
<div class="pull-right">
<!-- acties -->
<button class="btn btn-primary btn-sm"><i class="fa fa-edit"></i> Aanpassen</button>
<button class="btn btn-primary btn-sm"><i class="fa fa-quote-left"></i> Quote</button>
<button class="btn btn-danger btn-sm"><i class="fa fa-trash"></i> Verwijder</button>
<button class="btn btn-warning btn-sm"><i class="fa fa-exclamation"></i> Rapporteer</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- end of the topic -->
</div>
#endif
<!-- begin of comments -->
#foreach($comments as $comment)
#if($comment->tid == $threads->tid)
<div class="col-sm-offset-1 col-sm-10">
<div class="clearfix"> </div>
<div class="panel panel-default" id="a9">
<div class="panel-body thread-row">
<div class="row thread-row">
<div class="col-md-2 col-sm-3 text-center userblock">
<div class="clerafix"> </div>
<img class="img-thumbnail avatar" src="./public/img/avatar.jpg" alt="Avatar" height="55px;" width="55px">
<div class="push_bottom_5" style="color:{{ $comment->user->role->colour }};"><strong>{{ $comment->username }}</strong></div>
<div class="push_bottom_5"><small>{{ $comment->user->usertitle }}</small></div>
<div class="label label-default" style="background-color:{{ $comment->user->role->colour }};">{{ $comment->user->role->name }}</div>
<div class="push_bottom_5">
#if($comment->user->role->id == '1')
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
#elseif($comment->user->role->id == '2')
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
#elseif($comment->user->role->id == '3')
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
#elseif($comment->user->role->id == '4')
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
#elseif($comment->user->role->id == '5')
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
#elseif($comment->user->role->id >= '6')
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
<i class="fa fa-star"></i>
#endif
</div>
<div class="text-muted text-left"><small>Total Posts: 66</small></div>
<div class="text-muted text-left"><small>Joined 05-11-2014</small></div>
<div class="clerafix"> </div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-5 col-sm-6 col-xs-8">
<div class="clerafix"> </div>
<div class="text-muted"><span class="hidden-md "><i class="fa fa-calendar"></i>
</span><small><span>Posted:</span> {{ date("d-m-Y", strtotime($comment->posted_at)) }}</small></div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-10 col-sm-9 col-xs-12">
<div class="clerafix"> </div>
<div class="content_body"><p>{{ Helper::Filter(BBCode::parse($comment->comment)) }}</p>
</div>
<div class="clerafix"> </div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="panel-footer clearfix">
<div class="pull-right">
<!-- acties -->
<button class="btn btn-primary btn-sm"><i class="fa fa-edit"></i> Aanpassen</button>
<button class="btn btn-primary btn-sm"><i class="fa fa-quote-left"></i> Quote</button>
<button class="btn btn-danger btn-sm"><i class="fa fa-trash"></i> Verwijder</button>
<button class="btn btn-warning btn-sm"><i class="fa fa-exclamation"></i> Rapporteer</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
#endif
#endforeach
<!-- end of comments -->
#if(Auth::check())
<div class="col-sm-offset-1 col-sm-10">
<div class="clearfix"> </div>
<div class="panel panel-default" id="a9">
<div class="panel-heading"><h4>Snelle reactie plaatsen</h4></div>
<div class="panel-body">
{{ Form::open(array('url' => 'SubmitComment')) }}
<input type="hidden" value="{{ $threads->tid }}" name="tid">
{{ Honeypot::generate('spamprt', 'time') }}
<textarea name="comment" class="form-control" col="250" rows="5" placeholder="Typ uw bericht..."></textarea>
<div class="clearfix"> </div>
<button class="btn btn-success pull-left" type="submit" name="action">
Reageer
</button>
{{ Form::close() }}
</div>
</div>
</div>
#endif
<div class="col-md-4 col-md-offset-5">{{ $comments->links() }}</div>
</div>
</div>
#include('globs.footer')
I hope you guys will understand my problem and are be able to find a perfect solution with me.

Answer 1

It looks like you always retrieve all comments. I can also see this in your template, where you wrap your code in #if($comment->tid == $threads->tid) within your foreach.
This means that later in your template, where you retrieve the pagination links, it will retrieve the links for all comments, but not all comments are shown in the page, since you filter them manually in the loop.
Query the comments like
$comments = Comment::orderBy('posted_at', 'asc')
->where('deleted_at', '=', '0000-00-00 00:00:00')
->where('tid', $threads->tid) // it's about this line!
->with('user.role')
->paginate(10);
Note:
Above should provide a solution for your problem, but as an extra, you could also look into relationships. As an addition, this answer on SO "Laravel 4.1: How to paginate eloquent eager relationship?" (Since you tagged your post with Laravel-4) has some nice arguments on how to approach this efficiently.