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How do I code this?

Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 2:07 am
by jp_css
I want to know how many times an image has been viewed. What would be the best way to go about implementing this?

Overall I want the image to reside on my site and be placed in an email so that I could track how many emails are actually opened.

Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 2:32 am
by Gen-ik
I really don't know why I'm helping you on this... SPAMMERS should be strung up and shot without trial or mercy.

But here goes...
Instead of linking directly to the image you link to a PHP page. In the PHP page you have a basic function that updates a 'hit' counter either in a database or in a flat-file, then you load the image into the PHP page and spit it out. It will then display as normal in the email.

Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 2:34 am
by jp_css
Once again, as I posted in my other recent post this is not SPAM. It's an opt-in group. Yahoogroups are opt-in email lists.

Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 2:34 am
by jp_css
BTW, thanks for the information.

Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 4:43 am
by qads

Code: Select all

<img src="some.com/img.php?confirm=email@host.com">
imagine thats a tranparnet image, it would verify any email address when it is opened.....dam it, someone please delete this topic, its not as helpfull as it seems :evil:

Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 8:59 am
by Scribbler
There are thousands of opt-in mailing lists out there that I've never heard of...yet somehow I've managed to opt-in to all of them too.

Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 11:33 am
by jp_css
I am having struggles setting up a php page that would load an image. I have been searching around and found that I would have to use hearder files and the passthru() function (I think those were the two). I am really confused. Anyone have any idea how this is done?

Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 1:16 pm
by Saethyr
There are thousands of opt-in mailing lists out there that I've never heard of...yet somehow I've managed to opt-in to all of them too.
ROFL!!!!

I feel your pain Scrib


Saethyr

Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 2:27 pm
by jp_css
Trust me on this one. I only go through opt-in groups that you acutally have to send an email to in order to get you on the list. I am sure Yahoo really monitors these things because it's their name on the line. And if you do get added to the list somehow, it's very easy to unsubscribe w/o an trouble.