Method Illuminate\Support\Collection::links does not exist.
//make sure that all your queries/builder has ->paginate and not a ->get() or ->first() if(empty($request->search)){ $user = DB::table('users')->Paginate(15); return view('/users', ['user' => $user]); }else{ $user = DB::table('users')->where('name', 'like', '%'. $request->search .'%')->Paginate(15); return view('/users', ['user' => $user]); }