How to Limit Laravel Eloquent Result

Sometimes you might want to limit the eloquent result returned from the DB and to do that you can specify using the "take()" method or the "limit()" method.

Limit Eloquent Result Using Using take() and limit()

For example, let's say you want to limit the querying number of "posts" and to do that you can write your code like the following.

<?php

use App\Models\Post;

// using take()
Post::query()->take(20)->get();

// using limit()
Post::query()->limit(20)->get();

Limit Eloquent Result Using Pagination

Sometimes you might also want to use the pagination approach and to do that you can write your code like below.

<?php

use App\Models\Post;

$posts = Post::query()->paginate(20);