Trying to use laravel pagination breaks my controller/view

Question

I'm trying to get Pagination working in Laravel. I've not used pagination before so am trying to use some examples from the docs and google results. I'm wondering if I need to turn 'pagination' on somewhere in config.

Here's my simple working controller:

public function get_index() {
  $locations = Location::all();
  return View::make('location.index')->with('locations', $locations)->render();
}

When I try and add pagination like this it breaks:

public function get_index() {
  $locations = Location::paginate(5);
  return View::make('location.index')->with('locations', $locations)->render();
}

..and I get the error:

Unhandled Exception

Message:
Error rendering view: [location.index]

Trying to get property of non-object

Here's my location.index view:

@layout('layouts.blank')
@section('content')
<div class="row">
<div class="twelve columns">
    <div role="main" id="content">
        <h3>Locations - All</h3>
        @if($locations)
            <table class="twelve">
                <thead>
                    <tr>
                        <th style="text-align: left;">Address</th>
                        <th>Area</th>
                        <th>Region</th>
                        <th>Edit</th>
                        <th>Delete</th>
                    </tr>
                </thead>
                @foreach($locations as $location)
                <tbody> 
                    <tr>
                        <td style="text-align: left;">{{ $location->company,', ',$location->add_name,', ',$location->add_city }}</td>
                        <td> – </td>
                        <td> – </td>
                        <td>{{ HTML::link('location/update/'.$location->id, '',array('class'=>"foundicon-edit updateicon")) }}</td>
                        <td>{{ HTML::link('location/delete/'.$location->id, '',array('class'=>"foundicon-remove warnicon")) }}</td>
                    </tr>
                </tbody>
                @endforeach
            </table>
        @else
          Looks like we haven't added any locations, yet!
        @endif
        <p>{{ HTML::link('location/create', 'Create a location', array('class'=>"small radius button")) }}</p>
    </div>
</div>
</div>
@endsection

Answer 1

I hadn't read deeply enough into the subject. It's now working and here's what I had to change in the view:

//from:
@foreach($locations as $location)

//to:
@foreach($locations->results as $location)

That returned just 5 results. Then to add links to the footer of my table I added this HTML/Blade:

<tfoot>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="5"> {{ $locations->links() }} </td>
  </tr>
</tfoot>

Hope someone else benefits as I didn't find this terribly clear in the docs.