Miva and PHP?
Recently I was speaking to another webmaster about Miva. He said his hosting services offers PHP and mySQL instead which he said is faster, more secure and easier to use.
This confused me. I always thought Miva was a shopping cart script and credit card system.
What am I misunderstanding? Are there 2 different things called Miva?
Thanks.
Mark Hensler posted this at 07:02 — 24th January 2001.
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Jaiem-
I'm with you. That's what I always thought.
Hartmann posted this at 15:04 — 24th January 2001.
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Miva is a scripting language. Its syntax is a lot like BASIC.
Jaiem posted this at 15:17 — 24th January 2001.
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Thanks Hartmann.
I've always seen Miva written about in the context of cannedd e-commerce packages. Are they refereing to shopping carts written in Miva? What would be the advantage of Miva over Perl?
Hartmann posted this at 01:39 — 25th January 2001.
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Miva syntax is extremely easy.... It is liking writing code that you talk. EX: PRINT "Hello World"; etc.
Miva is a little faster than Perl, but its main advantage lies in ease of coding.
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anti posted this at 14:52 — 25th January 2001.
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AFAIK miva is interpreted. On a high traffic site this could result in serious load problems.
What's so easy about
PRINT "Hello World";
?
Compared to
print "Hello World"; // PHP
or
print "Hello World"; # perl
?
anti
Hartmann posted this at 15:14 — 25th January 2001.
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It isn't a big help on heavily loaded sites (hence you not seeing it used at amazon.com)...... I would personally use PHP for a shopping cart instead of Miva.
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Mark Hensler posted this at 08:28 — 26th January 2001.
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I would too.... for two reasons:
a) I don't know Miva (pretty good reason, huh?)
b) I can write my own misc. scripts to access the DBs for stats and stuff...
log user's info (browser, OS, etc.), navigation through site, and whatever else I feel like recording. And just link it to the shopping cart DB, to keep track of what that one user likes. Then..... possibly target them with certain products that they impulse buy..... (now I'm getting nasty, lol)
Mark Hensler
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