Displaying page Name in the URL instead of page ID in yii? - url

Question

How to display Page Name in the url instead of Page ID
For example, It Should be
localhost/mysite/index.php/page/about
Instead of
localhost/mysite/index.php/page/1
I have tired from edit actionview()
public function actionView($id)
{
$this->render('view',array(
'model'=>$this->loadModel($id),
));
}

Answer 1

You can create links to ANY url that you like. The issue is how you deal with the data that is passed.
So in your view, create a link.
About Us
This will call the controller action actionView(). You can then handle the page in there.
public function actionView($page)
{
// Load the model with the required page tag.
$pageDetails = Article::model()->findByAttributes(
array('page_name' => $page)
);
// Display the page
$this->render('view',array(
'model'=>$pageDetails
));
}

Answer 2

Updated Answer
Hope you are making your website SEO friendly with pretty URL. If your pages are static web pages such as about, faq, privacy..., you can implement the above answer provided by crafter. In this case page names should unique.
Another way (but not exactly what you want) is url rewriting with native yii feature urlManager. In this case page id will appear in URL like bellow.
localhost/mysite/index.php/page/1/about
localhost/mysite/index.php/page/2/britain-to-support-italys-intelligence-effort-on-migrants
If you observe, most of the News website following the same url structure.
Ex: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11682277/Greeks-admit-they-will-default-at-the-end-of-the-month-as-central-bank-turns-on-government.html
To do this this in application, you have to write urlManager rules.
'urlManager' => array(
'urlFormat'=>'path',
'showScriptName'=>true,
'rules' => array(
'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/view',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
//We are adding pretty url for article
'page/<id:\d+>/<title:[a-zA-Z0-9\-_]>' => 'page/view',
),
I am assuming bellow is you Article database table
id title description keywords status
-------------------------------------------------------
1 about some big text some keys active
Now i am making the URl dynamically
<?php
//In Controller
//Fetch articles and send them to view
$articles=Articles::model()->findAll();
?>
<?php
//In View
//Iterate articles
foreach($articles as $article)
{
$id=$article->id;
$title=$article->title;
//Make structured Url.
// Replaces all spaces with hyphens and change text to lowercase .
$titleInUrl= strtolower(str_replace(' ', '-', $title));
// Removes special chars.
$titleInUrl=preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-]/', '', $titleInUrl);
?>
$title
<?php
}
?>
You can also change URL pattern as you want. Ex i need url like
localhost/mysite/index.php/page/about-1
For this i have write/change rule in urlManager as
'page/<title:[a-zA-Z0-9\-_]>-<id:\d+>' => 'page/view',
Hope it will help you for your problem.