manual pagination in laravel - laravel

Question

I want to add laravel paginator for my select query:
the below query is working fine but not able to add laravel paginator.
$results = DB::select('SELECT
distances.*
FROM
(SELECT
( 6371 * acos( cos( radians(23.0376279 ) ) * cos( radians( latitude ) ) * cos( radians( longitude ) - radians(72.5102283 ) ) + sin( radians(23.0376279 ) ) * sin( radians( latitude ) ) ) ) AS distance,
shopdatabase.shop_product.stock,
shopdatabase.shop_product.price AS price,
shopdatabase.shops.id AS shopId,
shopdatabase.product.name AS name,
shopdatabase.product.id AS productId,
shopdatabase.shops.name AS shopName,
shopdatabase.shop_product.status,
shopdatabase.product_image.title AS image,
shopdatabase.product_meta.metaValue AS sourceDetails,
shopdatabase.product.sourceUrl
FROM
shopdatabase.shop_product
INNER JOIN shopdatabase.shops
ON shopdatabase.shop_product.shopId = shopdatabase.shops.id
INNER JOIN shopdatabase.product
ON shopdatabase.shop_product.productId = shopdatabase.product.id
INNER JOIN shopdatabase.product_image
ON shopdatabase.shop_product.productId = shopdatabase.product_image.productId
INNER JOIN shopdatabase.product_meta
ON shopdatabase.shop_product.productId = shopdatabase.product_meta.productId
WHERE
shopdatabase.shop_product.status = "active") distances
WHERE
distance < 20
ORDER BY
distance ASC');
Or can you tell me how can i write this select query with Eloquent?
That will be good if we can write the above code with Eloquent.

Answer 1

Eloquent is often not the best choice for more complex queries.
As earlier commenters have mentioned you might be able to refine this by establishing your relations.
However you should be able to paginate query builder results using paginate().
DB::select($query)->paginate(25);
Another option is to use slice() on a collection.
$collection = DB::select($query)->get();
$collection->slice(($currentPage-1) * $size, $size);
Then you need if you need a paginator to create links etc. you can create a paginator manually.
new LengthAwarePaginator(
$collection,
$total,
$size,
$currentPage
);

Answer 2

I suggest you read through the Laravel documentation for Eloquent and learn how to use relationships correctly.
Check out this resource: https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/eloquent-relationships
Once you set up your model relationships you should then be able to call the paginate method as specified here:
https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/pagination
You should be able to use something like this:
$foo->with('bar')->paginate();