Adding a counter to a HTML newsletter

[joice]

Hello,

I am using a PHP script to personalise an HTML page and send it by e-mail to a database of people. Now what I would like is that in that HTML e-mail, a counter is added, which is activated when someone actually opens the e-mail. What I would like in addition, is to save this person's id in a database when he opens the page. Is this possible and if so, HOW? :-)

Joyce

[PHP-Editors_com]

Its possible, but not going to be 100% accurate (as emails may be viewed offline).
You need to use an image tag to call the counter script. Remeber to use the full URL to call the script.

[joice]

That's what I thought too, but I was hoping there was a 'better' solution ;-)