laravel - How can I search a paginator and find the page of an item? -

in application, have comment section each post , reply section each comment.

since there can many comments, have setup 2 paginators:

• a comment paginator (?page=...)
• a reply paginator each comment (?comment-(id)-page=...)

for purpose of redirecting specific comment or reply calling method, how can find position of comment in comment paginator , same replies?

calling $post->commentpaginator()->currentpage() works inside views, how can perform search find exact page of item?

a method such as: $post->getcommentpage($comment) (eg. 2) return page comment located @ convenient.

assuming you're paginating timestamp, created_at, try following.

public function getcommentpage($comment, $reply) {     // how many items per page     $repliesperpage = 10;      // replies comment     $replies = $comment->replies()->sortbydesc('created_at');      // find rely position id     $position = array_search($reply->id, array_keys($replies->toarray()));      // page position , round     $page = ceil($position / $repliesperpage);      return page; }