Mark Hensler — Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:28:14 +0000

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)

Hartmann — Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:14:13 +0000

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.

anti — Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:52:36 +0000

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 — Thu, 25 Jan 2001 01:39:17 +0000

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.

Jaiem — Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:17:30 +0000

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 — Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:04:45 +0000

Miva is a scripting language. Its syntax is a lot like BASIC.

Mark Hensler — Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:02:41 +0000

Jaiem-
I'm with you. That's what I always thought.