[UPHPU] Email Counter

[Mac Newbold]

Today at 3:24pm, Webot Graphics said:

> Is there a way to make an email counter using PHP (or anything else) to count 
> (and possibly the ip address) when an email is viewed (without a database 
> would be best)?
>
> Basically I work for a company that sends out a free email newsletter almost 
> monthly to previous customers. 2 days ago we sent one out and we got back an 
> email saying
>
> "Hi guys, it's nice to here from you. How do I place an order with you?"
>
> After reading  sitepoint's  "Do You Underestimate Your Users?" article, i feel 
> i am not doing the greatest job with our newsletters, and I would like to be 
> able to track views, button clicks, etc.

Are you trying to count the number of emails you send, the number that are 
received/opened, or something else?

The best way usually to track the effectiveness of email or other 
marketing campaigns is to make a special URL where they enter the site, so 
that you can look at your web logs later to see what those people did.

There are also ways that you can make your PHP script track hits, but I'm 
not sure how you'd track emails with a server-side PHP script.

Mac

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