How to Paginate the array in Laravel 5.3? - laravel

Question

I am working on a web application, which searches for places/locations via /search route. On /search route it displays all the matched/searched locations BUT the locations are array based i want to paginate through it which i did but now the problem arises in the view. In the view i used
{!! $father->render() !!}
which renders the pagination but when i try to go to the 2nd it doesn't work.
Controller Code
{
public function paginate($items,$perPage)
{
$pageStart = \Request::get('page', 1);
// Start displaying items from this number;
$offSet = ($pageStart * $perPage) - $perPage;
// Get only the items you need using array_slice
$itemsForCurrentPage = array_slice($items, $offSet, $perPage, true);
return new LengthAwarePaginator($itemsForCurrentPage, count($items), $perPage,Paginator::resolveCurrentPage(), array('path' => Paginator::resolveCurrentPath()));
}
/**
* When user submit the search form it will return all the locations.
*
* #return locations collection
*/
public function postSearch(Request $request)
{
$categoryid = $request->category_id;
$locationid = $request->location_id;
$validator = \Validator::make($request->all(), [
'category_id' => 'required',
'location_id' => 'required',
],
[
'category_id.required' => 'Select Category',
'location_id.required' => 'Select Location',
]);
if($validator->fails()) {
return back()->withInput()->withErrors($validator->errors());
}else{
$category = Category::where('id', $categoryid)->first();
if(!$category->locations->isEmpty()) {
$cities = Location::where('id', $locationid)->pluck('city');
$cityname = $cities[0];
$alllocations = [];
$ratecards = [];
$father = [];
$i = 0;
$filteredlocations = $category->locations->where('city', $cityname)->all();
foreach($filteredlocations as $location){
$alllocations[$i] = $location->getaddetails;
$ratecards[$i] = $location->ratecard;
$father[$i]['ad'] = $alllocations[$i];
$father[$i]['rate'] = $ratecards[$i];
$i++;
}
$perPage = 4;
$father = AdSearchController::paginate($father, $perPage);
$nothing = 1;
return view('ads', compact('father','nothing'));
}else {
//flag
$nothing = 0;
return view('ads', compact('nothing'));
}
}
}
}
Route::resource('/search', 'AdSearchController#postSearch'); This is the route.We are searching on this route.