| Site Links |
|
|
| Merchant Resources |
|
|
| Newsletter |
|
|
|
|
|
Developer Resources and OpenUI (OUI) Tokens for Miva Merchant
|
 |
|
|
Glossary of Terms
cgi-bin
The most common name of a directory on a web server in which CGI programs are stored. The bin part of cgi-bin is a shorthand version of binary, because once upon a time, most programs were referred to as binaries. In real life, most programs found in cgi-bin directories are text files -- scripts that are executed by binaries located elsewhere on the server. While most programs using CGI are stored in this directory, it is not a requirement for using CGI.
Compact P3P Headers
The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P), developed by the World Wide Web Consortium, is emerging as an industry standard providing a simple, automated way for users to gain more control over the use of personal information on Web sites they visit. At its most basic level, P3P is a standardized set of multiple-choice questions, covering all the major aspects of a Web site's privacy policies. Taken together, they present a clear snapshot of how a site handles personal information about its users. P3P-enabled Web sites make this information available in a standard, machine-readable format. P3P enabled browsers can "read" this snapshot automatically and compare it to the consumer's own set of privacy preferences. P3P enhances user control by putting privacy policies where users can find them, in a form users can understand, and, most importantly, enables users to act on what they see.
Miva Merchant Shopping Cart
Miva Merchant is a "dynamic" browser-based storefront growth and management system that allows clients to create many online stores. It can be operated from anywhere the internet is available.
Miva Script Compiler
Build cross-platform, royalty-free, database-driven, web applications. Compile any Miva Script 4 syntax compatible application into an executable that runs on the Miva Virtual Machine. You can distribute the Miva Virtual Machine, royalty free and deliver fast database enabled code to your customers without revealing your source codes. Miva Script runs more efficiently in a compiled environment. Code running on the virtual machine does not need to be parsed each and every time the application is executed - it is already in a format that the machine can understand, resulting in enormous performance gains. Compiling does much more than tokenization or other minor speed improvement techniques. Additionally, because each and every line of code is parsed in advance by the compiler, you will eliminate the possibility of syntax errors at runtime.
Miva Merchant Limited Source Kit
With the advent of the Miva Script Compiler, Miva Merchant is now shipped in a compiled format only. This greatly enhances the end-user experience for both merchants and shoppers using Miva Merchant and also enables the new features of the Miva Virtual Machine (MVM). The Miva Merchant Limited Source Kit provides a collection of Miva Merchant modules in non-compiled format for developers to customize and compile for installation into Miva Merchant storefronts running the new 4.14 or later versions. A list of the kit's contents is listed at right. The kit ships with a limited license which enables developers to redistribute these customized modules(in compiled format only) to Miva Merchant 4.x licensees. The license also allows developers to distribute non-compiled versions of their custom-coded derivative modules to other Miva Merchant Limited Source Kit licensees.
OUI
The OpenUI Look & Feel module replaces your MMUI module and provides central hooks through which module developers may easily add features and performance enhancing solutions without having to reinvent the wheel with each Merchant release.
OUI Pro
The OpenStatistics License Key, when installed will enable to be able to see the total stats for the orders in one batch, all unbatched orders, or all orders regardless of classification. The stats page gives a total sales summary, and then breaks the total sales down by day-of-the-week and time of day (by the hour) the orders were made. The stats page also lists the top selling products and top revenue generators for the specified parameters. The stats are based on the filtering options you currently have set, allowing you to specify exactly what information you would like to generate. For example, if you are in the customer screen on the OpenOrder tab and click on the stats button, you will see the stats of that customers order only. If you have filtered the orders based on the order total and the date range, then the stats will be based on this filter. The stats button gives you immense flexibility because it allows you to view stats using a single filter or any combination of filters. For example, you can see the top 20 products from those that purchased SOMEPRODUCT, or those that have spent over a designated amount....or use both filters. All these resources are available simply by clicking the stats button, which appears on both the OpenOrders and OpenBatches screens.
OpenDesigner
OpenDesigner - Now you can control EVERY screen in your storefront, with our new OpenDesigner Why purchase a separate module for your page templates (~$44.95), and another for your category templates (~$44.95), and another for your welcome screen template (~$44.95), and yet another for the other page templates (~$44.95). That is almost $180 and you will still need more modules for creating new screens (~$35.00) and doing HTML emails (~$59.95). You can do all of this (and a whole lot more) with one, single module!
Perl
Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, a robust programming language frequently used for creating CGI programs on Web servers because it is faster than UNIX shell script programs, it can read and write binary files, and it can process very large files.
SSL Certificate
Short for Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL works by using a private key to encrypt data that's transferred over the SSL connection. Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer support SSL, and many Web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers. By convention, URLs that require an SSL connection start with https: instead of http:. Another protocol for transmitting data securely over the World Wide Web is Secure HTTP (S-HTTP). Whereas SSL creates a secure connection between a client and a server, over which any amount of data can be sent securely, S-HTTP is designed to transmit individual messages securely. SSL and S-HTTP, therefore, can be seen as complementary rather than competing technologies. Both protocols have been approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as a standard.
|
|
|
|
|
Category Tokens
