如何在Laravel 5.2中使用paginate与关系？

Question

I am trying to use paginate while selecting data from database by using relationships. I have three tables namely, users, contacts and contact_messages with models User, Contact, ContactMessage respectively.

I am trying to fetch all messages of a particular user by using the following method :

public function listMessage($user_id){
        $user1 = User::find($user_id);
        $messages = $user1->contact_messages;
        return View::make('message.listmessage')
        ->with('user_id', $user_id)
        ->with('messages', $messages);
    }

By this method I am getting all messages, but I couldn't paginate $messages . How can I paginate $messages? Can anyone help?

My models and relationships are given below :

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    public function contacts()
    {
        return $this->hasMany('App\Contact');
    }
    public function contact_messages()
    {
        return $this->hasManyThrough('App\ContactMessage', 'App\Contact');
    }
}

and Contact Model is

class Contact extends Model
{
    public function user(){
        return $this->belongsTo('App\User');
    }

    public function messages()
    {
        return $this->hasMany('App\ContactMessage');
    }
}

finally ContactMessage model is

class ContactMessage extends Model
{
    public function contact(){
        return $this->belongsTo('App\Contact');
    }
}

Answer 1

Try the following:

$messages  = $user->contact_messages()->paginate(10);