数据库为空时的Laravel分页

Question

I have a CRUD system where the administrator can manage users.

The users overview has a pagination function:

public function index()
{
    $users = User::first()->paginate(5);
    return view('users.index', compact('users'));
}

Which then goes through a foreach in my index.blade.php file. And this works perfectly.

Untill the Administrator decides to delete all database records. This gives me the following error:

Call to a member function paginate() on null

How should I fix this error? I want it to show the page but just not execute the Foreach when there are no results.

Answer 1

remove first() from query

public function index()
{
    $users = User::paginate(5);
    return view('users.index', compact('users'));
}