PHP Frameworks

Laravel Eloquent has native methods to facilitate implementing pagination on database query results. In this part of the series, you’ll learn how to limit the number of results in a Laravel Eloquent query with the `limit()` method, and how to paginate results with the `simplePaginate()` method.

In a previous section of this series, you updated an existing Artisan command in order to support the new lists feature. Although there are commands to insert and delete links, the demo application currently doesn’t have a command to edit existing links. This can be useful to move links between lists, for instance, or update a link description. In this guide, you’ll create a new Artisan command to update existing links in the database.

In a previous part of this series, you learned how to obtain database records using the all() method from within an Eloquent model, sorting the resulting collection with the sortDesc() method. In this guide, you’ll learn how to use the orderBy() method to sort results in the database query itself, which offers more flexibility and performance to order query results at the database level.