Laravel change pagination data

The paginator’s items is a collection. You can grab it and transform the data like so:

$paginator = $this->items()->where('position', '=', null)->paginate(15);
$paginator->getCollection()->transform(function ($value) {
    // Your code here
    return $value;
});

If you are familiar with tap helper here is the snippet that does exact same.

$paginator = tap($this->items()->where('position', '=', null)->paginate(15),function($paginatedInstance){
    return $paginatedInstance->getCollection()->transform(function ($value) {
        return $value;
    });
});

We can’t chain method getCollection to paginator instance because AbstractPaginator will return paginator’s underlying collection. so the paginator instance will be transformed to Collection. So fix that we can use tap helper.