How to implement guide with laravel eloquent pagination returning null for custom query with joins
Quick question that's been bugging me - I'm working on a personal project and I'm relatively new to this, so bear with me. I'm working with an scenario while trying to paginate results from a custom query using Laravel Eloquent. I have a situation where I'm joining two tables: `posts` and `comments`. The question arises when I try to paginate the results; instead of getting the expected paginated collection, I receive a `null` value. My query looks like this: ```php $posts = DB::table('posts') ->join('comments', 'posts.id', '=', 'comments.post_id') ->select('posts.*', DB::raw('COUNT(comments.id) as comments_count')) ->groupBy('posts.id') ->paginate(10); ``` When I run this code, I get the following behavior: `Trying to access array offset on value of type null`. I have verified that both `posts` and `comments` tables exist and contain data. I also checked that the relationship between the two tables is correct. To troubleshoot, I tried running the query in a database client, and it returns the expected results. I also attempted using Eloquent models instead of the query builder like this: ```php $posts = Post::withCount('comments')->paginate(10); ``` But this returns the same scenario. I suspect it might be related to how the pagination is set up, or potentially an scenario with eager loading or grouping. Any insights or suggestions on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated! I'm using Laravel 8.4 and MySQL 5.7. I'm working on a API that needs to handle this. This is part of a larger CLI tool I'm building. I'm using Php 3.9 in this project. Any feedback is welcome!