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

I created a subclass of Collection and implemented my own paginate method

public function paginate($perPage) {
    $pagination = App::make('paginator');
    $count = $this->count();
    $page = $pagination->getCurrentPage($count);
    $items = $this->slice(($page - 1) * $perPage, $perPage)->all();
    $pagination = $pagination->make($items, $count, $perPage);
    return $pagination;
}