Laravel 5 Pagination with array

Laravel provides pagination for Eloquent results out of the box, but for custom data, we need to do the pagination manually.

In this tutorial, I’ll use Laravel5 LengthAwarePaginator class to show you how you can create a paginated list of results from an array of data.

Here is the Script –

Controller – app/Http/Controller/ItemsController.php

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<?php
 
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
 
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Pagination\LengthAwarePaginator;
 
use App\Http\Requests;
 
class ItemsController extends Controller
{
     public function items(Request $request)
    {
        $items = [
            'item1',
            'item2',
            'item3',
            'item4',
            'item5',
            'item6',
            'item7',
            'item8',
            'item9',
            'item10'
            ];
        // Get current page form url e.x. &page=1
        $currentPage = LengthAwarePaginator::resolveCurrentPage();
        // Create a new Laravel collection from the array data
        $itemCollection = collect($items);
        // Define how many items we want to be visible in each page
        $perPage = 1;
        // Slice the collection to get the items to display in current page
        $currentPageItems = $itemCollection->slice(($currentPage * $perPage) - $perPage, $perPage)->all();
        // Create our paginator and pass it to the view
        $paginatedItems= new LengthAwarePaginator($currentPageItems , count($itemCollection), $perPage);
 
        // set url path for generted links
        $paginatedItems->setPath($request->url());
        return view('items_view', ['items' => $paginatedItems]);
    }
 
}

Here is the view file
resources/views/item_view.blade.php

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<h1>Items List</h1>
 
<ul>
@foreach ($items as $item)
   <li> {{ $item }} </li>
@endforeach
</ul>
 
<div>
{{ $items->links() }}
</div>

Define your route as shown below –
app/Http/Routes.php

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Route::get('items','[email protected]');

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18 Comments

  1. hey can u help me
    how array like this
    $data[‘a’]=DB::select(“select * from table_name);
    $data[‘b’]=DB::select(“select * from table_name);

    return view(‘view.home’,$data);
    how to add pagination like you do it

    Reply

    1. $data[‘a’] = DB::table(‘table_name’)->select(‘column’)->paginate(3);
      return view(‘view’, [‘data’ => $data]);

      in blade use {{ $data[‘a’]->links() }}

      Reply

  9. My project uses CURL to get all data through URL API. I am looking for a solution. Thanks man. Thanks to tutorials, work it. Thanks from Vietnam

    Reply

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    good. I don’t know who you are but certainly you
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    Reply

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