How to use pagination with laravel DB::select query

Question

I am working on a project in Laravel and using DB facade to run raw queries of sql. In my case I am using DB::select, problem is that pagination method is not working with t

Answer 1

Don't ever use the pagination logic on php-side! Use limit and offset on your sql's and leave the rest to the database server. Additional use a seperate count-select for your statement.

Count:

$sql_count = 'SELECT count(1) cnt FROM ('. $sql . ') x';
$result = \DB::select( DB::raw($sql_count) );
$data['count'] = $result[0]->cnt;

Results:

$sql .= ' LIMIT ' . $offset . ', ' . $limit; 

$result = \DB::select( DB::raw($sql) );
$myPaginator = new \Illuminate\Pagination\LengthAwarePaginator($result, $data['count'], $limit, $page, ['path' => action('MyController@index')]);
$data['result'] = $result;