For a long time, Miva Merchant developers have had to deal with the "exclusive or" situation of handling a certain task within the shopping cart framework, or externally via a PHP script. It's not uncommon to see users question how they can run PHP from within, say, a product description or a category header. The standard answer has always been, "you can't". At the most technical level, this is still true; Miva's virtual machine can't run PHP code. (more...)

In case you haven't heard, Rick Wilson and partners have purchased MIVA Small Business Solutions. We'd like to be among the first to congratulate Rick, Russ, Mark, and David. It's exciting to see Miva Merchant getting back into the hands of people who've known and loved it for as long - ok, LONGER - than we have. There are good things on the horizon! The new website resides at www.mivamerchant.com There's also a discussion about the sale over on the MIVA forums. Awesome!