About This Manual

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Overview

Miva Merchant is a browser-based Storefront Development and Management System. It integrates cataloging, product, fulfillment, maintenance, category management, shopping basket, order and credit card processing. The software is organized as a series of modules that can be field upgraded to provide new functionality without changes to the core system.

This manual describes the databases that are available for use by a module. It is divided into two parts.

• Core Databases
• User Interface Databases

Who Should Read This Guide

This guide is for the developer who wants to build Miva Merchant modules. The guide assumes you have a general knowledge relational databases.

Guide Organization

This guide is organized as follows:

Chapter	Description
1	About This Manual
2	Lists the content of the core databases (tables and indices) that can be used by the module developer.
3	Lists the content of the core databases (tables and indices) that can be used by the module developer.

Related Publications

Other publications you may find useful as you create modules are:

• Database Diagram: illustrates the relationships of the Miva Merchant tables and fields.
• HOW TO Plan and Create any Module: defines the phases of developing modules; planning, design, and implementation.
• Database & Utility Functions Reference Manual: describes the functions for use with the databases and the utility functions.
• Module Functions Reference Manual: identifies the Miva Merchant modules types and their required functions.
• Miva Script Reference Manual: a complete reference for the Miva Script language.
• Miva Script Commerce Library Reference Manual: Describes what a commerce library is and how it is used, the relationship between a commerce library and a Miva Script, the functions used in a commerce library, and gives an example of a commerce library.

For additional information about writing modules for Miva Merchant, refer to the Miva Developer Resources at: http://www.miva.com/support/docs/api/.

Requirements

To use Miva Script on the Internet, you must have an account with an Internet Host Provider (IHP) that is Miva enabled. That means the IHP must be running Miva Empresa (Miva Empresa Virtual Machine for Compiled Miva Merchant) on the server. To use Miva Script on your local system, you can use Miva Mia as the engine on Windows systems (Miva Mia Virtual Machine for Compiled Miva Merchant). Refer to the most recent Release Notes for up-to-date information.

Receive Support

Miva Merchant

Your Miva-enabled hosting provider usually supplies initial installation and configuration support for Miva Merchant. Check Miva Merchant support policies at the Miva Corporation web site at: http://www.miva.com/support.

Miva Script

For developer support, refer to the Miva Users Group Forums listed on the Miva support website at http://www.miva.com/support/usr_grps/. The forums discuss a variety of issues for Miva products, as well as for Miva Script Users and Merchant Coders.