Please explain this to me!!!!

loureiro

can someone explain to me what kingmike meant. im currently having this problem right now

Uchechi What am I doing wrong....

I first of all just for testing purposes created a PHP page with the following code.

Lets call this file trackit.php

PHP:

echo "image.jpg";

I created a second file which was HTML. It had the following code below.

PHP:

However, the image doesn't show up. Is this code correct?

kingmike If you are going to display an image through a php tracking script then you can't just echo the image name.

You have to use header and passthru.

m3rajk

do you have trackit.php?

loureiro

no. i was more interested in what kingmike was talking about. i have my own tracking page and this is the problem i am having. i was wondering if you could help me out

m3rajk

i haven't done much with tracking. i'd suggest that you pm kingmike since it's specific to something he posted.

loureiro

do you not know anything about passthru and header?

m3rajk

a little, but i'm used to programming languages, not scripting languages and happen to be new tophp. ... maybe later i'll be more interested in your question since it's actually asking for how something isworking. but right now it's appauling at how many people are giving fixed code to people that ask things so basic they obviously never opened a book.... when i was in school i did that with a few people in classes i took thinking they might learn. all that happened is they learned to ask me for the answers. eventually it became pestering me.

i've already been attacked for telling two people to open a book on php... one who didn't understand <?php v <? v <% and one who doesn't understand what an array is and the structure of one...

if i wasn't annoyed from that i'd probalby look a bit more at your question now... because it sounds like something i'm going to be interested in once i get what i'm working on for a friend up and running

loureiro

i am rather new at php but i can assure i know about programming. i am currently in school right now and for my co-op they asked me to develope some sorta tracking system for emails. the reason i asked this question was not because i didnt have it done but because im trying to look for a better way to do it.

I am currently counting a script via an image tag and echoing the image location back but when i do this and try to send an email through express it gives me the error that some pictures are not showing up even though i dont really want them to show up. the image is only a 1px X 1px image. i just dont want that message to show up.

In the meantime if someone had any suggestions on how i could make it better that is what i was looking for. i dont give out code either. depending on how much the person knows i might give them some pseudo code but thats as far as i would go. unless i already had the code made.

so im not trying to get anyone to write my code. i was just looking for suggestions on either how to solve my problem or how to track the information in a more efficient manner.

m3rajk

what i know about those are that you check for the referring address on it and take that.

and i realized you did something. i was just venting a little about two other threads. ytour question's actually good. it's about something that's an advanced topic and one needs to research or have experience.

not something that just opening a book will answer. ...which is what i was seeing in the other threads.

loureiro

i thought about that but im not sure if that would work. what if the creator of the email has a dynamic ip address. they are also sending the email from outlook and others might open it in outlook so im not sure if that would work.

i have already tried using cookies and it works great! if it werent for outlook. it doesnt allow cookies and thus gives an error message. same as before. some images may not be shown...blah blah.