how to change url management flow in yii - php

Question

i have implementing the project in yii. i done my project but i want to change instead of id to name. ie url management. i did uncomment in config.php then i added the following code. those follows:
my table name is recipe:
public function loadModel($id)
{
$model=Recipe::model()->findByPk($id);
if($model===null)
throw new CHttpException(404,'The requested page does not exist.');
return $model;
}
public function loadModel2($name)
{
$model=Recipe::model()->find('t.name=:name', array(':name' => $name));
if($model===null)
throw new CHttpException(404,'The requested page does not exist.');
return $model;
}
except this i added top of the sitecontroller use Recipe. but it shows error is
The use statement with non-compound name 'Recipe' has no effect
please suggest me suitable answer

Answer 1

I personally use in my projects something like /product-name/p/1 and this is SEO friendly. To get your links to look like that you have to first change your url rules
'urlManager' => array(
'urlFormat' => 'path',
'showScriptName' => false,
'urlSuffix' => '/',
'rules' => array(
'<title:.*?>/p/<id:\d+>'=>'product/view',
),
),
Then use this to create your URLs.
Yii::app()->createUrl('product/view',array('id'=>$model->id, 'title'=>$model->name))
Now it works both ways, the create url will always create urls like /product-name/p/1 and further more you can show the product the normal way
/**
* Displays a particular model.
* #param integer $id the ID of the model to be displayed
*/
public function actionView($id)
{
$model = $this->loadModel($id);
$this->render('view',array(
'model'=>$model,
));
}