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Laravel 5.x Cookbook

By : Terry Matula, Alfred Nutile
Book Image

Laravel 5.x Cookbook

By: Terry Matula, Alfred Nutile

Overview of this book

Laravel is a prominent member of a new generation of web frameworks. It is one of the most popular PHP frameworks and is also free and an open source. Laravel 5 is a substantial upgrade with a lot of new toys, at the same time retaining the features that made Laravel wildly successful. It comes with plenty of architectural as well as design-based changes. The book is a blend of numerous recipes that will give you all the necessary tips you need to build an application. It starts with basic installation and configuration tasks and will get you up-and-running in no time. You will learn to create and customize your PHP app and tweak and re-design your existing apps for better performance. You will learn to implement practical recipes to utilize Laravel’s modular structure, the latest method injection, route caching, and interfacing techniques to create responsive modern-day PHP apps that stand on their own against other apps. Efficient testing and deploying techniques will make you more confident with your Laravel skills as you move ahead with this book. Towards the end of the book, you will understand a number of add-ons and new features essential to finalize your application to make it ready for subscriptions. You will be empowered to get your application out to the world.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Laravel 5.x Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Paginating our Angular results


Now we have a ton of results, 730, as seen in this request:

Since we cannot show all 730 at once, and since the API gives us 20 at a time, let's paginate through their APIs.

Getting ready

Use a fresh Laravel installation and follow these steps.

How to do it…

  1. Install a library that helps with pagination and tons of other things:

    >npm install angular-ui-bootstrap --save
    
  2. Then, load the library into our public folder by copying it over to public/js and public/css. Later, we will optimize this part of the workflow:

  3. You will find all of these here:

  4. Then into the top of resources/views/layout.blade.php:

  5. And at the bottom of the same file:

  6. Now, in our public/js/app.js, we load the library:

  7. Now that we have loaded the libraries, let's use the Pagination buttons at the top and bottom of resources/views/home/_angular_search_results.blade.php:

  8. Let's take a closer look:

  9. The Angular Controller now needs to consider this new API query string and data points:

    I will go into the details...