Can someone Interpret texture methods and/or uniforms into QT OpenGL

[AI_Messiah]

The problem I have with textures is this:

string filename = string( path );
    filename = directory + '/' + filename;
    GLuint textureID;
    glGenTextures( 1, &textureID );
    
    int width, height;
    
    unsigned char *image = SOIL_load_image( filename.c_str( ), &width, &height, 0, SOIL_LOAD_RGB );
    
    // Assign texture to ID
    glBindTexture( GL_TEXTURE_2D, textureID );
    glTexImage2D( GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGB, width, height, 0, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, image );
    glGenerateMipmap( GL_TEXTURE_2D );
    
    // Parameters
    glTexParameteri( GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_REPEAT );
    glTexParameteri( GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_REPEAT );
    glTexParameteri( GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR );
    glTexParameteri( GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
    glBindTexture( GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0 );
    SOIL_free_image_data( image );
    
    return textureID;

the problem I have with uniforms is that with OpenGL you can pass a name. How would I do this with QT

glUniform1i( glGetUniformLocation( program, ( name + number ).c_str( ) ), i );

//and

glUniform1f( glGetUniformLocation( shader.Program, "material.shininess" ), 16.0f );

if there is no equivalent method is there some kind of work around?