Can't use paginate after using switch. - Laravel

Question

I want to use the switch before using paginate. But am getting this error in my view -

Call to undefined method Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder::links().

My Code - MyController.php

$var = User::select('somefield', 'anotherfield');

switch($condition){
   case foo:
       $var->where('bar', '=', 'xyz');
   break;
   case etc:
       $var->where('bar', '=', 'abc')
   break;
}
$var->paginate(10);
return View::make('x.y.z', compact('var'));

Answer 1

You need to catch in some variable as,

$data = $var->paginate(10);
return View::make('x.y.z', compact('data'));

In your current code, you are not saving paginated result anywhere.