laravel 4 paginate collection

Question

I cant create a proper pagination system using laravel 4. I have the following models and function that return collections:

Model Restaurant:

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Answer 1

The Laravel paginator does not do any of the splicing for you. Typically the paginator should be used hand in hand with Eloquent/Fluent. In your second example you should be doing it like this.

return Restaurant::find($id)->fooditem()->paginate(5);

Without calling the actual method you'll just be getting a collection of results and not the query builder instance.

If you want to use the paginator manually you need to pass in the spliced array (the correct items for the current page). This usually involves determining the current page, the total results and total pages. That's why, where possibly, it's best to use it with Eloquent or Fluent.