Laravel get specific page programmatically

ajax, jquery, laravel, pagination, php

Solution

Thanks to the good people on Laravel's irc channel I found the answer. So i will write here as help for others. The magic is this:

Input::merge(array("page" => $page_number))

you actually make Laravel's Paginator thinks that a "page" parameter is passed in the action. Neat huh :)

Problem

I am trying to implement pagination with Laravel and jQuery ajax. I need to send page number to a post controller and get the results for that specific page. So my question is. Is there a way to get a specific page from the Paginator in Laravel, something like `$model->page(3)` for getting the third page from the paginated data as an array, so i can serialize it as JSON and send back as a response? UPDATE: Thanks to the good people on Laravel's irc channel I found the answer. So i will write here as help for others. The magic is this: `Input::merge(array("page" => $page_number))` you actually make Laravel's Paginator thinks that a "page" parameter is passed in the action. Neat huh :)

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