cgi scripting for Miva

[Marty Knapp]

>> 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?
> 
> --
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Media Corporation

What I'd like to do is store my pdf files online and when an order is
placed, somehow have them automatically sent to my fulfillment center
without any interaction on my part. And no it doesn't have to be XML, that's
just what that particular module provides.

Marty