Error Call to a member function paginate() on string

June 8, 2022

I’m currently working on a search data filter and when I click it it’s an error Call to a member function paginate() on string

Controller

public function index(Request $request){
        if($request->has('search')){
            $data = rekap::where('costumer','LIKE','%' .$request->search. '%'->paginate(5));
        }else{
            $data = rekap::paginate(5);
        }
        
        return view('rekap', compact('data'));
    }

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      <form action="/rekap" method="GET">
      <div class="input-group mb-3">
        <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Cari..." name="search">
        <button class="btn btn-info" type="submit">Search</button>
      </div>
       </form>

{{ $data->links() }}

>Solution :

change your return like this

 if($request->has('search')){
        $data = rekap::where('costumer','LIKE','%' .$request->search. '%')->paginate(5);
    }else{
        $data = rekap::paginate(5);
    }
return view('blade name here')->with([
        'data' => $data,
    ]);