cgi scripting for Miva

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Mar 2 16:04:56 EST 2005


Marty Knapp wrote:
> I haven't done any cgi scripting with Rev, but I'm needing to put together
> something for a Miva Merchant store that I'm just setting up. Here's the
> scenario:
> 
> A customers orders products from our Miva store, I get the order as a simple
> email. I then forward it along with the attachment of a .pdf file of the
> product and a .pdf mailing label to a fulfillment center that prints the
> product and the label on demand and sends the order on to the customer.
> There will be hundreds of different .pdf files, with new ones being added
> from time to time. Storing my .pdfs at the fulfillment center is not an
> option.
> 
> There are modules that you can add to Miva that will send emails with
> attachments to the customer, but none that I'm aware of that will send
> attachments to a vendor. I did find a module that will send XML data to a
> vendor, but not an attachment without the help of something else.

Miva sales emails are consitently formatted. Why not just parse those? 
Does it have to be XML?

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