[php] Custom pagination view in Laravel 5

In Laravel 5 custom pagination is based on presenters (classes) instead of views.

Assuming in your routed code you have

$users = Users::paginate(15);

In L4 you used to do something like this in your views:

$users->appends(['sort' => 'votes'])->links();

In L5 you do instead:

$users->appends(['sort' => 'votes'])->render();

The render() method accepts an Illuminate\Contracts\Pagination\Presenter instance. You can create a custom class that implements that contract and pass it to the render() method. Note that Presenter is an interface, not a class, therefore you must implement it, not extend it. That's why you are getting the error.

Alternatively you can extend the Laravel paginator (in order to use its pagination logic) and then pass the existing pagination instance ($users->...) to you extended class constructor. This is indeed what I did for creating my custom Zurb Foundation presenter based on the Bootstrap presenter provided by Laravel. It uses all the Laravel pagination logic and only overrides the rendering methods.

With my custom presenter my views look like this:

with(new \Stolz\Laravel\Pagination($users->appends(['sort' => 'votes'])))->render();

And my customized pagination presenter is:

<?php namespace Stolz\Laravel;

use Illuminate\Pagination\BootstrapThreePresenter;

class Pagination extends BootstrapThreePresenter
{
    /**
     * Convert the URL window into Zurb Foundation HTML.
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function render()
    {
        if( ! $this->hasPages())
            return '';

        return sprintf(
            '<ul class="pagination" aria-label="Pagination">%s %s %s</ul></div>',
            $this->getPreviousButton(),
            $this->getLinks(),
            $this->getNextButton()
        );
    }

    /**
     * Get HTML wrapper for disabled text.
     *
     * @param  string  $text
     * @return string
     */
    protected function getDisabledTextWrapper($text)
    {
        return '<li class="unavailable" aria-disabled="true"><a href="javascript:void(0)">'.$text.'</a></li>';
    }

    /**
     * Get HTML wrapper for active text.
     *
     * @param  string  $text
     * @return string
     */
    protected function getActivePageWrapper($text)
    {
        return '<li class="current"><a href="javascript:void(0)">'.$text.'</a></li>';
    }

    /**
     * Get a pagination "dot" element.
     *
     * @return string
     */
    protected function getDots()
    {
        return $this->getDisabledTextWrapper('&hellip;');
    }
}