How to use pagination in laravel 5?

Question

am trying to port my laravel4 application to laravel 5 . In the previous version i could use the following method for generating pagination urls .

In controller:

$this->data['pages']= Page::whereIn('area_id', $suburbs)->where('score','>','0')->orderBy('score','desc')->paginate(12); 

and after sharing the data array with the view, i could user

In views :

{{$pages->links()}} 

In laravel 5 the doing that results in following error

ErrorException in AbstractPaginator.php line 445: call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, class 'Illuminate\Support\Collection' does not have a method 'links' 

not sure what i am missing here, can somebody help ?

Answer 1

In Laravel 5 there is no method "links" you can try this

{!! $pages->render() !!} 

Answer 2

In other frameworks, pagination can be very painful. Laravel 5 makes it a breeze. For using it, first you have to make a change in your controller code where you calling data from the database:

 public function index() {                $users = DB::table('books')->simplePaginate(5);         //using pagination method         return view('index', ['users' => $users]); } 

...after that you can use this code:

<?php echo $users->render(); ?> 

That will make you use simple Laravel 5 beauty.