Combining PHP and Miva Merchant

Monday, August 27th, 2007

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.

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