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With CakePHP RC2:
http://bakesale.googlecode.com/files/bakesale_1.2_final.with.cakephp.zip

Add this to bottom of your config/bootstrap.php just before the closing ?>

ob_start ('ob_gzhandler');

Your output is now gzipped. As BakeSale delivers CSS and Javascript thru an controller, these are Gzipped automagically too.

Edit: Trade-off is CPU load. However you can always upgrade your server easier than the visitors upgrade their bandwidth.

Mobillcash is an m-commerce billing platform that integrates with network operators around the world, making it possible for consumers to pay for online services and products with their mobile phone.

• Code in SVN
• Mobillcash website

On a personal note: pretty much every other payment method provider could use Mobillcash as an example on how to handle developers as this was pretty much an perfect experience.

• Extremely helpful support person (thanks Waseem) who contacted me personally thru Instant messenger.
• 2 tier affiliate program with recurring payments, not just for a signup.
• The payment method was extremely easy to implement, as can be seen from the code.

By default the Search Engine optimized URLs in BakeSale use the brand/product/category/content name as a base for writing the url.

Example:
http://demo.bakesalehq.com/dont-make-me-think-p-5.html

Basically you can use:
http://demo.bakesalehq.com/whatever-whenever-p-5.html

And it still points to correct page. Only -p-5.html part matters. p is for product and 5 is the id of the product.

However with the duplicated content hunt going on there is a small problem. If you change the product name Google might see this as two different pages having the same content.

Solution in the latest BakeSale release

Example (from categories_controller:show):

$this->_validateUrl($data['Category']['name']);

The function itself (in app_controller):

function _validateUrl($name) {
    $name = format_seo($name);

    $url = ltrim($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "/");
    if(strstr($url, '.html')) {
        $urlArray = explode('-', $url);
        $urlArrayCount = count($urlArray);
        $end = $urlArray[$urlArrayCount - 1];
        $type = $urlArray[$urlArrayCount - 2];
        if($url != $name . '-' . $type . '-' . $end) {
            $this->redirect('/' . $name . '-' . $type . '-' . $end, 301);
        }
    }
}