Laravel 5.7 simple pagination - laravel

Question

In our application, we have modules called Reports where in this report will show you the summarize of the module.
Example
General Journal Report - in this report will show you the summarize of the general journal module.
Now in our reports need to implement the pagination, having a problem applying the pagination in query builder.
Controller
$general_journals = GeneralJournalReportModel::getGeneralJournals();
$data['defined_gj'] = GeneralJournalReportItemsController::getDefinedGJById($general_journals);
I fetch all the general journal records and stored it in the variable general_journals then I passed it in another controller to do something else(such as putting some error handling when the column is null).
Model
public static function getGeneralJournals()
{
return DB::table('general_journals as gj')
->select('gj.id as id',
'gj.number as number',
'gj.posting_date as posting_date',
'gj.remarks as remarks',
'gj.document_reference as document_reference',
'gji.debit_amount as debit_amount',
'gji.credit_amount as credit_amount')
->leftJoin('general_journal_items as gji', 'gj.id', '=', 'gji.general_journal_id')
->where('gj.company_id', Auth::user()->company_id)
->where('gj.approval_status', 3)
->orderBy('gj.id', 'desc')
->simplePaginate(5);
}
View
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 col-lg-12">
<div class="table-responsive">
<table class="table table-striped table-bordered table-hover general-journal-report-table" id="gj-report">
<thead class="thead-global">
<tr>
<th id="pj_sequence">Sequence No.</th>
<th id="pj_date">Posting Date</th>
<th id="pj_op">Transaction No.</th>
<th id="4">Document Reference</th>
<th id="5">Remarks</th>
<th id="6">Amount Due</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody class="general-journal-report-details">
#if($defined_gj)
<?php $counter = 0; ;?>
<?php $total_debit = 0; ?>
#foreach($defined_gj as $key => $value)
<?php $counter++;?>
<?php $total_debit += $value->debit ;?>
<tr>
<td class="pj_sequence">{{$counter}}</td>
<td class="pj_date">{{$value->posting_date}}</td>
<td class="pj_op">{!! $value->number !!}</td>
<td>{{$value->doc_ref}}</td>
<td>{{$value->remarks}}</td>
#if($value->debit == '0')
<td></td>
#else
<td align="right"> {{number_format($value->debit,2)}}</td>
#endif
</tr>
#endforeach
<tr>
<td><b>Total</b></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right"> {{number_format($total_debit)}}</td>
</tr>
#endif
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
{{ $general_journals->links() }}
</div>
When I used the links() my button doesn't have any class.
Question: How do I put some class on the button of links?
NOTE: I tried this {{ $general_journals->links() }} but it only worked on the previous button(I want to also apply the class in the next button)

Answer 1

Try this
{{ $general_journals->links('pagination::bootstrap-4') }}
Replace with your laravel bootstrap version.

Answer 2

If you want to customize the pagination view, you can follow to this link https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/pagination#customizing-the-pagination-view