Laravel Multiple Pagination in one page

This is an easy solution I've found on Laravel 4.

Controller

Change the page name before you make the paginator:

Paginator::setPageName('page_a');
$collection_A = ModelA::paginate(10);

Paginator::setPageName('page_b');
$collection_B = ModelB::paginate(10);

View

Do the same: change the page name before you print the links

Paginator::setPageName('page_a');
$collection_A->links();

Paginator::setPageName('page_b');
$collection_B->links();

If you don't want to lose any page state while you navigate to another page, append to the links the current page from all collections:

Paginator::setPageName('page_a');
$collection_A->appends('page_b', Input::get('page_b',1))->links();

Paginator::setPageName('page_b');
$collection_B->appends('page_a', Input::get('page_a',1))->links();

Unfortunately I can't test this code right now, but browsing at the docs and the code (in Illuminate/Pagination/Environment) I guess you could something like this:

# use default 'page' for this
$collection1 = Model::paginate(20);

# use custom 'other_page' for this
$collection2 = Model2::paginate(20);
$collection2->setPageName('other_page');

The setPageName() method isn't documented in the docs, but it's a public method alongside those indicated in the documentation, so it should be working fine. FOr reference, this is the declaration (l. 171-180 in vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pagination/Environment.php):

/**
 * Set the input page parameter name used by the paginator.
 *
 * @param  string  $pageName
 * @return void
 */
public function setPageName($pageName)
{
    $this->pageName = $pageName;
}

Now take into consideration that you will have another query string appended to the url, so you need to tell the pagination to consider it. Use the appends() method:

$collection1->appends(array_except(Request::query(), 'page'))->links();

$collection2->appends(array_except(Request::query(), 'other_page'))->links();

That is, tell each Presenter to build up the url with all the query strings (the array resulting from Request::query() without the current index used by the paginator, or you'll end up with a double value). array_except() is a Laravel built in array helper that returns the given array (1st parameter) purged of the passed index (2nd parameter).

I'll try to test this code as soon as I can, but it should work. Let me know in any case!

$publishedArticles = Article::paginate(10, ['*'], 'published');
$unpublishedArticles = Article::paginate(10, ['*'], 'unpublished');

The third argument is used as follows:

laravel/public/articles?published=3

laravel/public/articles?unpublished=1