How to paginate a collection after get() in Laravel?

best way for paginate collection:

1- add this to boot function in \app\Providers\AppServiceProvider

  /**
         * Paginate a standard Laravel Collection.
         *
         * @param int $perPage
         * @param int $total
         * @param int $page
         * @param string $pageName
         * @return array
         */
        Collection::macro('paginate', function($perPage, $total = null, $page = null, $pageName="page") {
            $page = $page ?: LengthAwarePaginator::resolveCurrentPage($pageName);
            return new LengthAwarePaginator(
                $this->forPage($page, $perPage),
                $total ?: $this->count(),
                $perPage,
                $page,
                [
                    'path' => LengthAwarePaginator::resolveCurrentPath(),
                    'pageName' => $pageName,
                ]
            );
        });

2-From hereafter for all collection you can paginate like this

$events1 = \App\Event::Where('valid_to','>=',$today)->orderByRaw('valid_to','ASC')->get();
$events2 = \App\Event::Where('valid_to','<',$today)>orderByRaw('valid_to','ASC')->get();
$events = $events1->merge($events2); 

$events->paginate(5)

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