Editing MIVA Script (section)

==Language features==
Miva Script is often described as '[[XML]]-like' although this is something of a misnomer.<ref>[http://www.mivamerchant.com/docs-html/ScriptMan_html/MivaScriptMan.html Miva Script 3.9]</ref> It consists of tags which may be interspersed with HTML and [[XHTML]] and which all start with <Mv. There are both paired and stand-alone (''empty'') tags. Before version 4.14, Miva Script was interpreted by the Miva Script engine, Empresa. Version 4.00 introduced a compiler, boosting performance significantly.

One of the distinguishing features of Miva Script is the native support for a variation of [[dBase]] database platform (DBF III) tables with a proprietary index format and support for SQL. Many installations today are running with [[MySQL]] database.

Variables are untyped and are not pre-declared. Miva Script uses the file extensions ''.mv'', ''.mvc'', and ''.mvt'' which is the common file extension for runtime compiled template source files.