Pagination Results Using Laravel Eloquent

Laravel's Eloquent ORM provides a convenient method for querying and retrieving data from your database. When working with large datasets, it's often necessary to limit the number of results returned.

Question:

How can we limit the results with Eloquent?

Answer:

In older versions of Laravel, you can use a combination of the take() and skip() methods to emulate the SQL LIMIT clause:

Game::take(30)->skip(30)->get();

take() will retrieve the specified number of records, while skip() will offset the results by the given number.

In recent versions of Laravel, a dedicated limit() method is available, along with an offset() method:

Game::limit(30)->offset(30)->get();

By using these methods, you can easily control the number of results returned by your Eloquent queries, allowing you to paginate through large datasets efficiently.