How to Access Laravel Pagination Protected Property

Hello Artisan,

In this laravel error solving tutorial, I will show you how to solve cannot access protected property Illuminate\Pagination\LengthAwarePaginator::$total. You know that, we can not access this protected property like that.

To access this property, you have to follow the below tricks. See the example:

$data = User::orderBy('created_at','desc')->paginate(5);

$data = json_encode($data);
$data = json_Decode($data);
// now you can access all the protected property like....
dd($data->total);

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Hope it can help you.