Add some data in laravel paginate

Question

As the tittle said, Here is my Controller

$book = Data::where('userId','1')->paginate(3);

return response()->json($book);

And get the json data like this:

data:[{id: 1, userId: 1, vendorId: 1, name: "Alfreda Berge PhD", phone: "1-850-813-5950 x96169",…},…]
from:1
last_page:2
next_page_url: "http:/localhost/XX/public/user/book/list/1?page=2"
perpage:4
prev_page_url:null
to:4
total:5
// if I want to add a new column and value here ,what should I do? 

I tried to do this :

$book = Data::where('userId','1')->paginate(3);
$book->printWord = 'Hellow!';
return response()->json($book);

But, It seem will remove the column printWord. Any idea?

Answer 1

You can create collection with custom data manually and use merge() helper:

$book = Data::where('userId','1')->paginate(3);

$custom = collect(['my_data' => 'My custom data here']);

$data = $custom->merge($book);

return response()->json($data);

Just checked, it works just fine.

Answer 2

The paginate function will return an object of the type Illuminate\Pagination\LengthAwarePaginator, it is not possible to just add another field to this.

I think the best solution for you would be to add the pagination object and the other values in an array and convert this array to json. This way your books data is seperated from the other data you want to add.

Like so:

return response()->json([
    'books' => $books,
    'foo' => 'bar'
]);

In this case your json object will look like this:

{
    books: {
        // Pagination object with books
    }
    foo: 'bar'
}