With the code below, what I wanted was paginate the query I created. But, when I try to add paginate after get, it throws an error. I wanted to remain get since I want to limit to columns that was set on $fields. What would should be the better idea to paginate this thing? or what's a good substitute for get and limit the columns? What I tried: ->get($this->fields)->paginate($this->limit) Part of my controller: class PhonesController extends BaseController { protected $limit = 5; protected $fields = array('Phones.*','manufacturers.name as manufacturer'); /** * Display a listing of the resource. * * @return Response */ public function index() { if (Request::query("str")) { $phones = Phone::where("model", 'LIKE', '%'. Request::query('str') . '%') ->join('manufacturers', 'manufacturers_id', '=', 'manufacturers.id') ->get($this->fields); } else { $phones = Phone::join('manufacturers', 'manufacturers_id', '=', 'manufacturers.id') ->get($this->fields); } return View::make('phones.index')->with('phones', $phones); } }