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Miva or Miva Script is a proprietary computer scripting language mainly used for internet applications such as e-commerce. It is developed by the Miva Corporation, based in San Diego, California, a subsidiary of FindWhat Corporation. Although quite a number of web hosting companies support Miva on their servers, it is significantly less widespread than its popular competitor PHP.

History

The language was first developed under the name htmlscript by Joe Austin and others in 1995, and a company, htmlscript corporation, was formed the following year.

In 1997, Jon Burchmore extensively rewrote the language to make it more syntactically consistent, although the new engine supported both old htmlscript and new (named mivascript) syntaxes.

In 1998 the company became Miva Corporation, and in late 1998 the first version of the MIVA Merchant commerce application was launched. Miva Hosting, Miva Merchant Web Hosting - One World Hosting.