Laravel - How to paginate here? - mysql

Question

I have this code and I want to paginate $shares.
How can I archive this?
$level = Share::join('follows', 'shares.user_id', '=', 'follows.user_id')
->where('follows.follower_id', Auth::user()->id)
->where('follows.level', 1)
->get(array('shares.*'));
//get 10% of shares
$count = Share::count()/10;
$count = round($count);
$top10 = Share::orderBy('positive', 'DESC')
->take($count)
->get();
$shares = $top10->merge($level);
//get only unique from shares
$unique = array();
$uniqueShares = $shares->filter(function($item) use (&$unique) {
if (!in_array($item->id, $unique)) {
$unique[] = $item->id;
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
});
//order by id
$shares = $uniqueShares->sortBy(function($share)
{
return -($share->id);
});
return View::make('layout/main')
->with('shares', $shares);

Answer 1

lots of reudandant unnecessary codes here.
1st:
$level = Share::join('follows', 'shares.user_id', '=', 'follows.user_id')
->where('follows.follower_id', Auth::user()->id)
->where('follows.level', 1)
->get(array('shares.*'));
Why you are taking ALL the records only to discard it later?
2nd:
$shares = $top10->merge($level); Why you are merging the two arrays?
3rd:
$uniqueShares = $shares->filter(function($item) use (&$unique) {
if (!in_array($item->id, $unique)) {
$unique[] = $item->id;
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
});
You HAD to wrote this snippet because above in 2nd, you merged the two arrays which will yield duplicated entries. So why merging?
4th:
//order by id
$shares = $uniqueShares->sortBy(function($share)
{
return -($share->id);
});
And here comes the actual data which you actually want.
So let's recape
You need
10% of total shares
order by some positive column
order by amount of shares perhaps as i am guessing.
To use the inbuilt paginate(), you'l need paginate() that's a must.
Rest is simple.
count the total result. round(Share::count()/10)
put it in paginate() as the 1st arguement.
Add the order by clause whichever is necessary.
looking at the code, it doesn't look like you will/should have duplicated data which may haved added the distinct and group by clause.
use remember in Share::count()/10; to Cache it. You don't need to run the query over and over again.
and you're done.

Answer 2

The way you are merging your queries you may need to manually create it the pagination in your blade, then send a variable to "take" the next set you want.
Read the Laravel Docs for more info on implementing it into your views and manually creating it.
http://laravel.com/docs/pagination

Answer 3

Try this, should be good to go
Share::join('follows', 'shares.user_id', '=', 'follows.user_id')
->where('follows.follower_id', Auth::user()->id)
->where('follows.level', 1)
->paginate(20);
Maybe you would like to specify columns to select in select() method.