Manually Creating a Paginator (Laravel 5)

There is no more make() method in laravel 5. You need to create an instance of either an Illuminate\Pagination\Paginator or Illuminate\Pagination\LengthAwarePaginator . Take a look at documentation page, Creating A Paginator Manually part

http://laravel.com/docs/master/pagination

I guess it'll look something like this:

use Illuminate\Pagination\Paginator;

class Blah {
    public function index()
    {
        // Build array
        $array = [];
        return new Paginator($array, $perPage);;
    }
}

Also check this answer.