Miva runs on the web server, interprets the Miva tags and outputs pure HTML to the browser. You can also use Miva to output Javascript and other browser languages, and use the built-in database to easily manipulate and publish data. PHP3 PHP3 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.
Some languages do things, others get things done.
PHP3 is commonly known as the latter of these two. POP3 mailboxes are like PO boxes for emails, the emails are stored there until you collect them. You should probably receive at least one POP e-mail account with your hosting package. You will also want it to be able to use your own domain name as the SMTP server. Additional POP e-mail accounts can usually be purchased at a low cost if needed.