Laravel 5.1 specifing current page for pagination

Question

Been working on this for far too long with no results. I have tried.

`\\Illuminate\\Pagination\\Paginator::setCurrentPage($current_page);`

Answer 1

Suppose you have $users to paginate in your UserController, you might do:

public function index()
{
    $currentPage = 3; // You can set this to any page you want to paginate to

    // Make sure that you call the static method currentPageResolver()
    // before querying users
    Paginator::currentPageResolver(function () use ($currentPage) {
        return $currentPage;
    });

    $users = \App\User::paginate(5);

    return view('user.index', compact('users'));
}

I believe this applies to Laravel 5.0 and above. Have to check on that.