How to paginate Comments in Post in Laravel 5 - laravel-5

Question

The Scenario -
I'm assuming that i have thousands of Post and each post have 1-1000 comments.
well i can simply paginate Post by 10 or 20 with its comments.
This will return paginated posts with its comments.
$Posts = \App\Post::where('published',true)->with('comments')->paginate(10);
The problem is that I want to paginate comments so each posts return 4 comments. Then how do I call other comments if a posts have more then 4 comments?

Answer 1

I think the best way is to store posts on a separate table. For example create a post table using the following migration
Schema::create('posts', function(Blueprint $table){
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('title');
$table->timestamps();
});
Now create comments table using migration:
Schema::create('comments', function(Blueprint $table){
$table->increments('id');
$table->integer('post_id')->unsigned();
$table->string('name');
$table->text('comment_body');
$table->timestamps();
$table->foreign('poem_id')->references('id')->on('posts');
});
Create a one to many relations between these two tables as follows:
For Post model,
class Post extends Model
{
...
public function comments(){
return $this->hasMany('App\Comment');
}
}
and for the Comment model,
class Comment extends Model
{
protected $fillable = ['post_id', 'c_body', 'name'];
public function posts(){
return $this->belongsTo('App\Poem', 'post_id');
}
}
At this point, after populating the two database tables: posts and comments, you can then query them separately in your controller.
To do that, add the two lines at the top of your controller:
use App\Post;
use App\Comment;
now in any method of your choice in that controller, query posts and comments for each most as follows
public function index(){
$posts = Post::where('published',true);
$comments = Post::where('published',true)->comments;
// pass this data to your view
return view('anyview', compact('posts', 'comments');
}
My answer is long, though i tried to make it short. Hope it helped.