Creating new Custom pages in Miva

[percy]

Hi,


I have 2 programming questions:


1) When designing pages, is there a way to preview the pages b4 the public can view those pages? The only thing i see in the Miva Admin interface is that I have to schedule Maintanance in order to to any modifications!



2) I am trying to customize the MivaMerchant5 pages by adding a rewards program to and i coded the new functionality mostly in php. I read something at http://smallbusiness.miva.com/resources/tips_tricks/# to the extent that i couldn't use php in the template code when creating a new page, is that true? Do i have to convert this code to HTML before it can work in MIva or should i leave the code as it is?


Thanks

[iMarks]

Re: Creating new Custom pages in Miva

Regarding #1, just create the page and don't link it into your site until it is finished. You can display the page with a URL like:

http://www.mydomain.com/mm5/merchant...creen=PAGECODE

[wcw]

Re: Creating new Custom pages in Miva

Re: question 2 You can't write the php in the page template in merchant. It would be best to convert it to html and store morph code and put it in the page template.

That said, you could create a page in php (or other language) and "call" that page into the MIVA Merchant page template with the use of the Emporium Plus Tool Kit. It has dozens of functions built in; one of them is to "call" external pages directly into the Merchant pages.

As I said above, it would be best (most efficient) to convert the page to html and store morph code and put it directly into the page template. But if that is not possible, you can still "call" the code in.

[percy]

Re: Creating new Custom pages in Miva

Thanks for your replies guys!

For #1, after reading through the Morph Store Technology docs, I was able to do what you just adviced me to do. So now I have pages I use for all my tests and when the code works I then upload it.

For #2, after reading a lot on Modules the other day, I decided to buy and install the ADS External File Pro module for accessing my external PHP scripts.

Thanks again for your replies! I appreciate it.

Percy

[YourChild]

Re: Creating new Custom pages in Miva

Re: question 2 You can't write the php in the page template in merchant. It would be best to convert it to html and store morph code and put it in the page template.

That said, you could create a page in php (or other language) and "call" that page into the MIVA Merchant page template with the use of the Emporium Plus Tool Kit. It has dozens of functions built in; one of them is to "call" external pages directly into the Merchant pages.

As I said above, it would be best (most efficient) to convert the page to html and store morph code and put it directly into the page template. But if that is not possible, you can still "call" the code in.

Hello I have a couple question regarding this. I'm trying to set up the store for someone and apparently I just sort of dived into it. I noticed that the store has .php files but when I searched through admin, I couldnt locate these .php files. It seems like these files are called into the store from an external source.

My question then is...are these .php files being hosted on some server? or is it kept on the internet by that module you speak of, Emporium Plus Tool Kit?