title: Laravel 5.1 specifing current page for pagination
body: <p>Been working on this for far too long with no results. I have tried.</p>
  
  <pre><code>`\Illuminate\Pagination\Paginator::setCurrentPage($current_page);`
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>returns
  <code>Call to protected method Illuminate\Pagination\Paginator::setCurrentPage()</code></p>
  
  <p><code>\Paginator::setCurrentPage($current_page);</code></p>
  
  <p>returns <code>Call to protected method Illuminate\Pagination\Paginator::setCurrentPage()</code></p>
  
  <p><code>\DB::getPaginator()-&gt;setCurrentPage($current_page);</code></p>
  
  <p>returns <code>call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, class 'Illuminate\Database\MySqlConnection' does not have a method 'getPaginator'</code></p>
  
  <p><code>$tmp = new Post( ); $tmp-&gt;getConnection()-&gt;setCurrentPage($current_page);</code></p>
  
  <p>returns <code>call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, class 'Illuminate\Database\MySqlConnection' does not have a method 'getPaginator'</code></p>
  
  <p>How can I specify the page? I need to specify it manually.</p>
  
  <p>I had hoped it to be as easy as <code>$model-&gt;find( )-&gt;paginate($per_page, $page)</code></p>