Developer Training Series
Developer Training Series
The Developer Training Series is a course geared toward web developers or anyone who wants to extend their training in ecommerce. During this course you'll learn how to build high quality and successful ecommerce stores using the Miva Merchant ecommerce platform. These videos were intended to be watched sequentially as concepts build on top of each other as the videos progress. However, if you already have the basics down you can jump around using the left navigation to the videos that you benefit from the most as each video encompasses a single concept.
History of Miva Merchant
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 5.10 minutes
Miva Architecture
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 2.26 minutes
Introduction to the Admin
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 5.16 minutes
Assign and Eval
Version 9
Video Length: 6.05 minutes
Global vs Local Variables
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 6.55 minutes
Entities
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 3.17 minutes
Output Encoding
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 5.87 minutes
Structures
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 7.53 minutes
Miva l.settings Structure
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 2.83 minutes
Conditional Statements
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 2.92 minutes
Logic Operators
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 9.03 minutes
Foreach Loops
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 3.52 minutes
Vidoes | While Loops
Video Length: 2.88 minutes
Pos1 – Loop Counter
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 5.48 minutes
Arrays
Video Length: 7.42 minutes
Built In Functions
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 7.56 minutes
Reading a CSV file
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 8.67 minutes
Writing a CSV file
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 9.1 minutes
Time Functions
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 2.32 minutes
System Variables
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 6.45 minutes
Using Miva’s Tokenlist Feature
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 7.25 minutes
Items
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 9.98 minutes
Global and Local Items
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 4.35 minutes
Pages Part I
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 7.75 minutes
Pages Part II
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 7.75 minutes
Pseudo Pages
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 5.53 minutes
Product List Layout
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 3.87 minutes
Error Messages
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 3.53 minutes
Custom Fields Overview
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 9.92 minutes
Legacy Custom Fields
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 8.55 minutes
New Custom Fields
ver. 9.0 and later
You can now use Custom Fields on any page thanks to built in Template Level Functions to read/write custom fields. You no longer need to first assign a custom field to a page in order to use it. There are also now new custom fields for Custom Basket and Order Fields.
Video Length: 1.12 minutes
Custom Field Functions
ver. 9.0 and later
There are 17 functions in total; 8 for reading, 8 for writing, and ad debug function for trouble shooting. Because all the functions follow a similar syntax, once you learn one or two, it's easy to deduce what the others function will be. This makes using them and remembering them very nice.Video Length: 15.2 minutes
Custom Basket Fields
ver. 9.0 and later
Custom Basket Fields allow you to save data associated with a shopper or basket. Think of a Custom Basket Field as a "cookie," similar to how you would use a cookie to save data associated with a particular customer on a session basis, Custom Basket Cases are the same concept.Video Length: 9.22 minutes
Custom Order Fields
ver. 9.0 and later
A Custom Order Fields is typically used in conjunction with Custom Basket Fields. Basket Fields automatically get converted to Order Fields if they share the same field code. The Primary us is to collect additional data about an order. It's also used for admin Customer Relationship Management in Manage Orders.Video Length: 8.42 minutes
Exporting Custom Fields
ver. 9.0 and later
One great feature about Miva Merchant Custom Fields, is that they are importable and exportable through the built in Miva Merchant Import/Export System. You can have it export a .csv file with your custom fields selected. Importing and exporting in the custom fields is extremely powerful and a great way to get your data into and out of Miva Merchant.Video Length: 2.4 minutes
Debugging Custom Fields
ver. 9.0 and later
One nice feature about Miva Merchant Custom Fields is they provide a built in debug function. This function can be used anytime you have problems reading or writing a custom field. There may be a case where you have some custom field logic on a page and for some reason or another it's not working. The Debug function was created to specifically help identify these type of issues.Video Length: 5.93 minutes
Working with Post and Get Parameters
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 6.78 minutes
Working with Cookies
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 9.08 minutes
Understanding merchant.mvc
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 4.4 minutes
Default Miva Parameters
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 7.88 minutes
Miva Actions
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 5.85 minutes
File Structure
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 8.28 minutes
Basehref
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 4.38 minutes
Staging Changes Before Going Live
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 7.07 minutes
Maintenance Mode
ver.9.0 and later
Video Length: 7.17 minutes
Installing a Module
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 6.38 minutes
Deleting a Module
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 5.2 minutes
Introduction To Frameworks
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 3.75 minutes
Installing a Framework
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 4.4 minutes
Saving a Framework
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 3.03 minutes
PSD to Miva Part I
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 21.03 minutes
PSD to Miva Part II
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 18.95 minutes
PSD to Miva Part III
ver. 9.0 and later
Video Length: 13.45 minutes