Email Tracking

From Koset Surakomol

How to track when/if someone reads your email. source

This is the code for your outgoing email. pre img src=http://my.website.com/1px_email_track.php?id=your@friend.com / /pre

This is the php code 1px_email_track.php that gets executed on your web server. It returns a 1 pixel gif file so it looks invisible to your recipient. This will produce a mysql record. pre if( $_GET['id']!= ) { $q = UPDATE `email_tracker` SET `opened_dt` = NOW() WHERE `id` = .sq( $_GET['id'] ). AND `opened_dt` IS NULL; mysql_query( $q ); } header( 'Content-Type: image/gif' ); header( 'Content-Length: '.filesize( '1px.gif' ) ); readfile( '1px.gif' ); /pre

You can also have the code email you back. Cool indeed. pre ?php require(class.phpmailer.php);

$mail = new PHPMailer();

$mail-IsSMTP(); $mail-Host = localhost; $mail-From = verify@mysite.com; $mail-FromName = Verifier; $mail-AddAddress(myself@mysite.com); $mail-WordWrap = 50; $mail-IsHTML(true);

$mail-Subject = Email read verification.; $mail-Body = $_GET['id']; $mail-AltBody = $_GET['id'];

if(!$mail-Send()) {

  echo ,;
  exit;

}

echo .; ? /pre It requires phpmailer Warning, it will email you every time the message is read (unless you add code to stop after the first time).