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Miva Mia is the personal version of the Miva Engine. It includes a built-in web
server for running applications and HTML documents on Windows 95/98.
Miva Mia's pre-processor technology provides an excellent development environment
for building, testing, and running interactive web applications on Windows 95/98
before moving them to a Miva Empresa enabled web server.
Scripting -
Miva Mia runs applications written in Miva Script - the XML based language
which uses HTML-like syntax and provides a powerful set of advanced web
development features.
Integrated Database -
A high performance, architecture neutral, multi-user database system
is integrated into the Miva Engine. The database system uses xBase compatible
data files and special cross platform index files. Database and index
files can be copied and used across web server platforms without any
conversion or time consuming data unload/load procedures.
Commerce -
The Miva Commerce System (MCS) is a simple-to-use and generalized interface
to execute transactions with commerce providers such as CyberSource,
CyberCash, and Cardservice for tasks such as credit card processing, sales tax
lookup, export controls, product fulfillment, online shipping calculations,
and other services. MCS uses a METHOD to determine which commerce processing
sub-system should be used to conduct a secured server to server transaction.
How To Use Miva Mia
Use any standard web or text editor to write Miva applications and HTML files, or modify
copies of the examples. Miva Mia runs in the background and lets you run your Miva
applications and standard HTML files without an Internet connection.
Miva applications use four types of files:
- Miva Source Code (Application) Files -
Files that contain Miva Script and/or HTML code.
- Delimited (Flat) Data files -
ASCII files that contain one record per line with fields separated
by one or more ASCII characters.
- Miva Database Files -
Databases that may be ordered by multiple index files.
- Miva Index Files -
Files that impose a logical view on the Database files.
Typically source code files go in one directory while data files go
in a different, parallel directory. This is also the standard way that
many Miva enabled hosting services organize web space accounts that
use the Miva Engine on their servers.
You should take the following steps to become familiar with programming
in the Miva environment:
How To Publish Your Miva Mia Applications On The Web
Following are some options available to you for getting your Miva applications and data published
on the Internet:
- Hundreds of Miva
Enabled Hosting Providers offer access to the Miva Engine as a standard, and often free, service.
- If your hosting provider doesn't offer Miva access, please refer them
to us, and Miva Corporation will work with your hosting provider to get the Miva Engine installed on
their systems.
- You can also Buy your own license to the Miva
Engine, and install it in your private cgi-bin, or your own web server.
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Hello, World!
examples/hello/
Demonstrates basic Miva programming concepts.
MvSMTP
examples/MvSMTP/
Sends Email messages using the <MvSMTP> tag.
Database
examples/database/
Demonstrates manipulating an xBase database.
The Mazes of Miva
examples/maze/
Generates and Solves random mazes. Demonstrates arrays and structures.
Hunt the Wumpus
examples/wumpus/
A Miva conversion of the classic computer game.
The source code for the examples can be viewed in any text editor.
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