Limit amount of links shown with Laravel pagination

Now Laravel 5.7 has a new pagination method to customize the number of links on each side of the paginator. Thanks to the new method you no longer need a custom pagination view in some cases. Here’s the API you can use to define the link count on each side of the current page:

User::paginate(10)->onEachSide(2);

write that code on your controller.

you can see more detail at https://laravel-news.com/laravel-5-7-pagination-link-customizations

I used css to limit the links that I allowed. Really simple.. this can be extended to show any number of pages, at any number of breakpoints

@media screen and ( max-width: 400px ){

    li.page-item {

        display: none;
    }

    .page-item:first-child,
    .page-item:nth-child( 2 ),
    .page-item:nth-last-child( 2 ),
    .page-item:last-child,
    .page-item.active,
    .page-item.disabled {

        display: block;
    }
}

this specific implementation allows the arrows, the '...', the first page, active page and last page

For Laravel 5.6+

Publish vendor template:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-pagination

Edit bootstrap-4.blade.php as following:

@if ($paginator->hasPages())
<ul class="pagination" role="navigation">
    {{-- Previous Page Link --}}
    @if ($paginator->onFirstPage())
        <li class="page-item disabled" aria-disabled="true" aria-label="@lang('pagination.previous')">
            <span class="page-link" aria-hidden="true">&lsaquo;</span>
        </li>
    @else
        <li class="page-item">
            <a class="page-link" href="{{ $paginator->previousPageUrl() }}" rel="prev" aria-label="@lang('pagination.previous')">&lsaquo;</a>
        </li>
    @endif

    <?php
        $start = $paginator->currentPage() - 2; // show 3 pagination links before current
        $end = $paginator->currentPage() + 2; // show 3 pagination links after current
        if($start < 1) {
            $start = 1; // reset start to 1
            $end += 1;
        } 
        if($end >= $paginator->lastPage() ) $end = $paginator->lastPage(); // reset end to last page
    ?>

    @if($start > 1)
        <li class="page-item">
            <a class="page-link" href="{{ $paginator->url(1) }}">{{1}}</a>
        </li>
        @if($paginator->currentPage() != 4)
            {{-- "Three Dots" Separator --}}
            <li class="page-item disabled" aria-disabled="true"><span class="page-link">...</span></li>
        @endif
    @endif
        @for ($i = $start; $i <= $end; $i++)
            <li class="page-item {{ ($paginator->currentPage() == $i) ? ' active' : '' }}">
                <a class="page-link" href="{{ $paginator->url($i) }}">{{$i}}</a>
            </li>
        @endfor
    @if($end < $paginator->lastPage())
        @if($paginator->currentPage() + 3 != $paginator->lastPage())
            {{-- "Three Dots" Separator --}}
            <li class="page-item disabled" aria-disabled="true"><span class="page-link">...</span></li>
        @endif
        <li class="page-item">
            <a class="page-link" href="{{ $paginator->url($paginator->lastPage()) }}">{{$paginator->lastPage()}}</a>
        </li>
    @endif

    {{-- Next Page Link --}}
    @if ($paginator->hasMorePages())
        <li class="page-item">
            <a class="page-link" href="{{ $paginator->nextPageUrl() }}" rel="next" aria-label="@lang('pagination.next')">&rsaquo;</a>
        </li>
    @else
        <li class="page-item disabled" aria-disabled="true" aria-label="@lang('pagination.next')">
            <span class="page-link" aria-hidden="true">&rsaquo;</span>
        </li>
    @endif
</ul>
@endif

This example handle in a correct way new CSS classes, active link, three dots (correctly, not 1..2 3 4) and is it customizable (number of pages that you want to show).

Example

Three dots handled correctly

From laravel 8 docs. If needed, you may control how many additional links are displayed on each side of the current page using the onEachSide method in blade:

{{ $posts->onEachSide(1)->links() }}