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Pagination is a necessary function for showing vast amounts of data in an understandable manner. Using Laravel 10 and the renowned Bootstrap framework, you can design visually beautiful and responsive pagination controls for your web application.

Bootstrap’s design and components improve the user experience by making it easier to navigate through paginated data.

This tutorial will walk you through the steps of developing pagination with Bootstrap in Laravel 10. To construct a refined and organised pagination system, we will investigate how to paginate database queries, generate pagination links, and incorporate Bootstrap’s pagination styles.

Let’s get started.

Laravel Installation

Open terminal and run this command to create a laravel project.

composer create-project laravel/laravel myblog

It will create a project folder with name myblog inside your local system.

To start the development server of laravel –

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000

Assuming laravel already installed inside your system.

Create Database & Connect

To create a database, either we can create via Manual tool of PhpMyadmin or by means of a mysql command.

CREATE DATABASE laravel_app;

To connect database with application, Open .env file from application root. Search for DB_ and update your details.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=laravel_app
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=root

Create Migration

Open project into terminal and run this artisan command.

$ php artisan make:migration CreateProductsTable

It will create a migration file with name 2023_08_06_045915_create_products_table.php inside /database/migrations folder.

Open migration file 2023_08_06_045915_create_products_table.php and write this code into it.

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

return new class extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     */
    public function up(): void
    {
        Schema::create('products', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string("name", 70);
            $table->string("slug", 100);
            $table->text("description");
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     */
    public function down(): void
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('products');
    }
};

Migration Migration

To run migration file and create table.

$ php artisan migrate

Table: products

Create Model

To create model, run this artisan command.

$ php artisan make:model Product

It will create a file with name Product.php inside /app/Models folder.

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Product extends Model
{
    use HasFactory;

    public $timestamps = false;
}

Create Factory File – Data Seed

To seed dummy data into table, we need create a factory file.

Back to terminal and run this artisan command.

$ php artisan make:factory ProductFactory --model=Product

It will create a file with name ProductFactory.php inside /database/factories folder.

Open ProductFactory.php and write this code into it.

<?php

namespace Database\Factories;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\Factory;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;

/**
 * @extends \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\Factory<\App\Models\Product>
 */
class ProductFactory extends Factory
{
    /**
     * Define the model's default state.
     *
     * @return array<string, mixed>
     */
    public function definition(): array
    {
        return [
            'name' => $this->faker->name,
            'slug' => Str::slug($this->faker->name),
            'description' => $this->faker->text,
        ];
    }
}

Run Factory File

To run this factory which results in to create dummy data into database table. We will run this factory file by Tinker Shell

$ php artisan tinker

It will open a shell interface, by the help of which we will interact with database.

>>> App\Models\Product::factory()->count(500)->create()

terminal will be like this,

This command will create 500 dummy data to database table.

Create Controller File

Open project into terminal and run this artisan command to create controller

$ php artisan make:controller ProductController

It will create ProductController.php inside /app/Http/Controllers folder.

Open file and write this following code into it.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\Product;

class ProductController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $data = Product::paginate(10);
        
        return view('products', compact('data'));
    }
}

Create Blade Template

Create a file products.blade.php inside /resources/views folder.

In this file, we will write the code to list data.

Open products.blade.php and write this complete code into it.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
    <title>Laravel Pagination Tutorial - Online Web Tutor</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">
</head>

<body>

    <div class="container">
        <h3 style="text-align: center;">Laravel Pagination Tutorial - Online Web Tutor</h3>
        <div class="panel panel-primary">
            <div class="panel-heading">Laravel Pagination Tutorial - Online Web Tutor</div>
            <div class="panel-body">
                <table class="table">
                    <thead>
                        <tr>
                            <th>#ID</th>
                            <th>#Name</th>
                            <th>#Slug</th>
                            <th>#Action</th>
                        </tr>
                    </thead>
                    <tbody>
                        @if (!empty($data) && $data->count())
                            @foreach ($data as $key => $value)
                                <tr>
                                    <td>{{ $value->id }}</td>
                                    <td>{{ $value->name }}</td>
                                    <td>{{ $value->slug }}</td>
                                    <td>
                                        <button class="btn btn-danger">Delete</button>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                            @endforeach
                        @else
                            <tr>
                                <td colspan="10">There are no data.</td>
                            </tr>
                        @endif
                    </tbody>
                </table>

                {!! $data->links() !!}
            </div>
        </div>

    </div>
</body>

</html>

Link Paginator To Use Bootstrap

Open AppServiceProvider.php from /app/Providers folder.

Inside this file, we will have two methods i.e register() and boot(). In boot() method, we will enable bootstrap to use by paginator links.

Open AppServiceProvider.php and update this code.

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
use Illuminate\Pagination\Paginator;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * Register any application services.
     */
    public function register(): void
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Bootstrap any application services.
     */
    public function boot(): void
    {
        Paginator::useBootstrap(); // here we have added code.
    }
}

Create Route

Open web.php file from /routes folder. Add this route into it.

//...

use App\Http\Controllers\ProductController;

Route::get('products', [ProductController::class, 'index']);

Application Testing

Run this command into project terminal to start development server,

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/products

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