>Each email that you send out goes to a person in a DB, right? So each >person has an ID, right? So if you put a link of >http://www.site.com/index.cfm?userid=2577 then the index.cfm can take the >userid and translate it into the person, right? Is that what you want?
Well, yes and no. I see what you're saying, but it's not that simple for me. As I said, the e-mail is one HTML template that is sent through our mass e-mailer provider to the list of subscribed addresses. It's essentially the same thing as writing only one e-mail, but CC'ing a boatload of people. Using your approach, we'd have to generate a unique HTML file for each user we send the e-mail to in order to append the proper userID to the links. Remember, I don't have access to CF or any other scripting languages to loop over a record set of userIDs. So what I send has to be generic. For example, to blindly log usage without regard to who it is, a simple <a href="filename.cfm?logMe=1">Filename</a> will do the trick. Then, on my site, I just look for the logMe flag and increment the usage. That's not hard. But now the trick to is say, "log this person's e-mail address(assuming they've clicked the link via their e-mail), somehow figuring out how to identify a user through one static HTML file." That's what I don't quite know how to do. Generating a separate HTML file for each user in the database is too much and unreasonable. That's why I was hoping there might be a smarter way of doing this. Thanks, Dave. ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
