Matt Stauffer is back with another in his series of posts about the new features coming in the v5.3 release of the popular Laravel framework. In the latest post he looks at pagination improvements allowing you to customize the related templates.

Laravel's pagination library is brilliant, because pagination is a common task that is a surprising amount of work to implement. In the past, if you wanted to customize your pagination templates, it was just as simple to customize your pagination template as it was to work with the rest of the pagination library.

However, for the sake of making the pagination library easier to extract for non-Laravel projects, Laravel 5.0 (or maybe even earlier?) introduced a much more complex—but more portable—system for pagination templates. Thankfully, in Laravel 5.3, we're going to go back to how it always was: simple and easy.

He then gets into the basics of how pagination works in Laravel applications (not the template part, the backend) using the Task::paginate handling. He includes the view to just show the results and the current view handling for the pagination links. Finally he shows how to customize the template in v5.3 by registering a custom view to the partials.paginator and using the links method to inject them into your current template.