Laravel Eloquent skip n, take all?

Question

I\'ve noticed that in Laravel when chaining a skip() you must also use take() as well. I want to skip the first n rows but take the rest. The take

Answer 1

If you're using MySQL and you don't want to have 2 queries to get the max rows, you may use the PHP maximum INT value as take() parameter e.g. take(PHP_INT_MAX).

It's because Laravel Query Grammar casts the limit to integer. So you can't use a larger number than that.

From MySQL documentation on LIMIT:

To retrieve all rows from a certain offset up to the end of the result set, you can use some large number for the second parameter.

For example:

\App\User::skip(10)->take(PHP_INT_MAX)->get();