How to Customize the Simple Paginator Arrows?

There's a simple way this can be done. Since Laravel's Paginate is based on the Bootstrap theme, it is possible to change its values by str_replace() of PHP.

<?php
   $pagination = $artigos->render();
   $pagination = str_replace('&laquo;', 'POSTS RECENTES <i class="fa fa-arrow-right"></i>', $pagination);
   $pagination = str_replace('&raquo;', '<i class="fa fa-arrow-left"></i> MAIS POSTS', $pagination);

   echo $pagination;
?>

This character « («) is the default left arrow that Laravel set to prev and the other character » (») the default to right.

Then just make a str_replace() , replacing the arrow by whatever we want, a button, previous , next .

According to the documentation for Laravel 5.3 you can customize the view of the following form:

Running the artisan command to carry the default view of pagination to resources/views/vendor/pagination :

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-pagination

From there, just edit the content HTML of your default.blade.php , which corresponds to the default pagination.

According to the documentation, you can customize your own features of view using the following methods:

$results->count()
$results->currentPage()
$results->firstItem()
$results->hasMorePages()
$results->lastItem()
$results->lastPage() (Not available when using simplePaginate)
$results->nextPageUrl()
$results->perPage()
$results->previousPageUrl()
$results->total() (Not available when using simplePaginate)
$results->url($page)

• Note that in the case of your question, using simplePaginate() , some methods are not available!

For pagination in the Laravel 5.2 and earlier

It is enough that instead of using the render() method, do the following:

@include('paginacao.default', ['paginator' => $artigos]) //onde o primeiro parâmetro é o caminho da sua view

And customize it by creating your blade, for example:

@if ($paginator->lastPage() > 1)
<ul class="pagination">
    <li class="{{ ($paginator->currentPage() == 1) ? ' disabled' : '' }}">
        <a href="{{ $paginator->url(1) }}">Previous</a>
    </li>
    @for ($i = 1; $i <= $paginator->lastPage(); $i++)
        <li class="{{ ($paginator->currentPage() == $i) ? ' active' : ''     }}">
            <a href="{{ $paginator->url($i) }}">{{ $i }}</a>
        </li>
    @endfor
    <li class="{{ ($paginator->currentPage() == $paginator->lastPage()) ? ' disabled' : '' }}">
        <a href="{{ $paginator->url($paginator->currentPage()+1) }}" >Next</a>
    </li>
</ul>
@endif

Where for this release the available methods are:

$results->count()
$results->currentPage()
$results->firstItem()
$results->hasMorePages()
$results->lastItem()
$results->lastPage() (Not available when using simplePaginate)
$results->nextPageUrl()
$results->perPage()
$results->previousPageUrl()
$results->total() (Not available when using simplePaginate)
$results->url($page)