I recently had to publish on DISCARDEDteenz.com each chapter of my daughter’s book. I decided to create a Page (with a model) to do that. Soon after putting it online, I had complains from relatives (I will not tell who) 
that the page was too long. Mmm ? I decided to use a widget CLinkPager to manage this.
The thing is I had to cut one page into sections and make CLinkPager think that the section had a model.I also had to put some delimiters inside the original text . I used <!–leaf–> .
This works: You can see it there on chapter1
PageController.php
public function actionShow()
{
$model=$this->loadPageSlug();
$this->pageTitle=$model->title;
if (isset($_GET['page']))
$section=$_GET['page'];
else $section=1;
// I have placed some page markers <!--leaf--> in the page content
$leaves=array(); $leaves=explode('<!--leaf-->',$model->content);
$sections=new CPagination(sizeof($leaves));$sections->pageSize=1;
$sections->applyLimit($criteria=new CDbCriteria);
$sections->setCurrentPage($section-1);
$this->render('show',array('model'=>$model,'pages'=>$sections));
}
So now instead of echoing the whole page ( $model->content) I have now in views/page/show.php
.../...
<?
$leaves=array(); $leaves=explode('<!--leaf-->',$model->content);
// checking where am I in the page
echo "section=".($pages->getCurrentPage()+1) .'/'.sizeof($leaves) ;
//now displaying only one section
echo $leaves[$pages->getCurrentPage()];
$this->widget('CLinkPager',array('pages'=>$pages)); ?>
.../...
Maybe somebody can tell me how to avoid repeat the “explode” ? 
Now in my browser:If I write
"myserver/page/chapter1/page/1" I display section one
"myserver/page/chapter1/page/2" I display section two etc. Good ! 
this is because I have urlrules with:
'page/<slug:[a-z0-9-]+>*'=>'page/show',
I can even see the widget and it’s on the right section (setCurrentPage works fine):
Go to page: * << First * < Previous * 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * 6 * Next >
I had some problems with the urls from CLinkPager which were not following my urlmanager rules:
It was displaying:
myserver/page/chapter1?page=5§ion=4 on the link 5
But that was solved because I discovered the power of the "star" character in the urlrules.
The _GET variable was back!
So now I know that I can use CLinkPager even if I don’t have a model. Was there a better way to do this ? $sections->applyLimit($criteria=new CDbCriteria);
This helped me a lot to solve this case:
http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/cookbook/53/
http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/topics.url#using-named-parameters