Hooking into the Miva DB

Is there a way I can hook into the Miva DB via my asp code to get information directly without building a custom solution in Miva? I'd love to be able to get access to the info of my products and provide some embedded info in my pages (like cart info or product specials) etc.

Brad Eck
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Hooking into the Miva DB



Miva DBs are just xbase dbs, so I don't see why not. Search google for
info connecting to xbase dbs with asp. I would caution you against
trying to write to the DBs though, as Miva can get kind of finicky about
that. We are doing it with java, but had to set up a cron script to run
the pack screen from the admin every time it does it (the newest version
of wget will let you send the login data via the post method).



----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Eck " <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 3:40 PM
Subject: [mru] Hooking into the Miva DB


> Is there a way I can hook into the Miva DB via my asp code to get
> information directly without building a custom solution in Miva? I'd
> love to be able to get access to the info of my products and provide
> some embedded info in my pages (like cart info or product specials)
> etc.
>
> Brad Eck
> SitesDynamic (<A HREF ="http://www.sitesdynamic.com)">http://www.sitesdynamic.com)</A>
> Baskets Etcetera (<A HREF ="http://www.basketsetcetera.com)">http://www.basketsetcetera.com)</A>
>
>
>
>
> __________________________________________________ ______________
> Sent via the WebMail system at sitesdynamic.com
>
>
>
>
>
>

Hooking into the Miva DB



I think you'll have a problem with the index files as they are different from
other xBase. You'll probably have to write your own driver.

> Miva DBs are just xbase dbs, so I don't see why not. Search google for
> info connecting to xbase dbs with asp. I would caution you against
> trying to write to the DBs though, as Miva can get kind of finicky about
> that. We are doing it with java, but had to set up a cron script to run
> the pack screen from the admin every time it does it (the newest version
> of wget will let you send the login data via the post method).
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Eck " <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 3:40 PM
> Subject: [mru] Hooking into the Miva DB
>
>
> > Is there a way I can hook into the Miva DB via my asp code to get
> > information directly without building a custom solution in Miva? I'd
> > love to be able to get access to the info of my products and provide
> > some embedded info in my pages (like cart info or product specials)
> > etc.
> >
> > Brad Eck
> > SitesDynamic (<A HREF ="http://www.sitesdynamic.com)">http://www.sitesdynamic.com)</A>
> > Baskets Etcetera (<A HREF ="http://www.basketsetcetera.com)">http://www.basketsetcetera.com)</A>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > __________________________________________________ ______________
> > Sent via the WebMail system at sitesdynamic.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >

Hooking into the Miva DB



I guess I'd even be OK with the cron job idea of pulling out a specific set of information. I am really interested in getting to the data for my own display and then having some kinf of post capability so I can add to cart. This seems to be the line between running cart software (miva) and a cart engine.

Brad Eck
SitesDynamic (<A HREF ="http://www.sitesdynamic.com)">http://www.sitesdynamic.com)</A>
Baskets Etcetera (<A HREF ="http://www.basketsetcetera.com)">http://www.basketsetcetera.com)</A>

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Don <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 16:39:58 -0400

>I think you'll have a problem with the index files as they are different from
>other xBase. You'll probably have to write your own driver.
>
>> Miva DBs are just xbase dbs, so I don't see why not. Search google for
>> info connecting to xbase dbs with asp. I would caution you against
>> trying to write to the DBs though, as Miva can get kind of finicky about
>> that. We are doing it with java, but had to set up a cron script to run
>> the pack screen from the admin every time it does it (the newest version
>> of wget will let you send the login data via the post method).
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Brad Eck " <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 3:40 PM
>> Subject: [mru] Hooking into the Miva DB
>>
>>
>> > Is there a way I can hook into the Miva DB via my asp code to get
>> > information directly without building a custom solution in Miva? I'd
>> > love to be able to get access to the info of my products and provide
>> > some embedded info in my pages (like cart info or product specials)
>> > etc.
>> >
>> > Brad Eck
>> > SitesDynamic (<A HREF ="http://www.sitesdynamic.com)">http://www.sitesdynamic.com)</A>
>> > Baskets Etcetera (<A HREF ="http://www.basketsetcetera.com)">http://www.basketsetcetera.com)</A>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > __________________________________________________ ______________
>> > Sent via the WebMail system at sitesdynamic.com
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >