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 paginator must get the items that it would normally get from a database query with an offset/limit statement. So when you have a collection with all items, you should do the offset/limit yourself.

    $food = $food->get_rest_foods($id);

    $page = 1;
    if( !empty(Input::get['page']) ) {
        $page = Input::get['page'];
    }

    $perPage = 15;
    $offset = (($page - 1) * $perPage);

    $food = Paginator::make($food->slice($offset,$perPage, true)->all(), $food->count(), $perPage);