Yii How to render Users page using Id in model, but username instead of ID in URL

Question

I have Users pages. In index view they all have hyperlinks on ID, and so they are sending ID to model. And when u press the link the users View is loaded and the url becomes

/site/users/1

But what I want is the URL to be not users ID but users Username like

/site/users/Alex

How can I do it ? This is my _view

<?php echo CHtml::link(CHtml::encode($data->id), array('view', 'id'=>$data->id)); ?>

Controller

public function actionView($id)
{
    $this->render('view',array(
        'model'=>$this->loadModel($id),
    ));
}

Answer 1

You will need to modify the following files :-

main.php(config)

"urlManager" => array(
    "rules" => array(
        "/site/users/<name:[\w\_]>" => "/site/users/view",
        //All the other rules here...
    )
)

Controller

public function actionView($name){
    $mdoel = User::model()->findByAttributes(array(
        "username" => $name
    ));
    if($model){
        $this->render("view", array(
            "model" => $model
        ));
    }
}

And wherever you are putting a link, make the link as follows :-

<?php echo CHtml::link(CHtml::encode($data->id), array("view", "name" => $data->username)); ?>

Update :-

Try using the following syntax :-

<?php echo Chtml::link(CHtml::encode($data->id), $this->createUrl('view', array('name'=>$model->username))); ?>