The Official Miva Web-Scripting Book: Shopping Carts, Feedback Forms, Guestbooks, and More [Paperback]

Kent Multer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2000

Miva Script is a Web application tool that allows developers to create complex Web applications with little or no programming experience. It provides the power of CGI, with easy programming comparable to HTML. There is no easier way to build sophisticated cross-platform server side applications. This book explains how.

With the information in The Official Miva Web-Scripting Book, readers will discover the elements of Miva Script along with examples of how each tag and function is used in different circumstances. The reference section of the book contains descriptions of all Miva Script tags and system functions.

This book not only teaches the beginner how to use Miva Script, it can also help the expert exploit the power of the language. Miva Script is easy to learn; it's powerful; it's flexible; and it's fast. It's the full-featured language of the Internet.

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About the Author

Kent Multer is a freelance writer, programmer, artist, and musician, not necessarily in that order. His previous works range from The Official Netscape JavaScript Programmer's Reference to the science fiction story Wind Warrior 2000.

Product Details

• Paperback: 315 pages
• Publisher: Top Floor Pub (June 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966103211
• ISBN-13: 978-0966103212
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #594,255 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The only book out there, June 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Official Miva Web-Scripting Book: Shopping Carts, Feedback Forms, Guestbooks, and More (Paperback)

I was thankful to find a Miva script resource in print. However, as I am interested in the security aspects of the language, I had hoped to read more in depth about macros. This book is a better desktop language reference than real world application development learn-by-example concept guide. This book is a quick read, will help you get your head around the basics of Miva scripting, but be aware of the author's free use of macros in script examples.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Almost the same as the Manual, August 14, 2000

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Grant Morgan (Tokyo,Japan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Official Miva Web-Scripting Book: Shopping Carts, Feedback Forms, Guestbooks, and More (Paperback)

The book was complete complete and I did not see any mistakes but it was mainly just a nicer printed version of the manual. There were some scripts and explanaitions but not much. If you want a bound and printed reference it is good, otherwise I would just use the only manual and example code from the shopping cart or a miva programming site.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible for the beginner!, September 23, 2002

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Steven R Terry (Norman, OK United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Official Miva Web-Scripting Book: Shopping Carts, Feedback Forms, Guestbooks, and More (Paperback)

Look, I have a BS in Computer Science. I see so many manuals that it would make your head swim. This book ranks up with the worst of the worst. It is a reference, NOT a guide. If you already know Miva, great, buy the book. If you are just beginning, keep searching because this book does nothing, absolutely ZIP in helping you create, maintain an ecommerce website.