如何获取应用程序发送的电子邮件的响应？

Question

I have an idea to do a survey using emails. But have no idea to do it. Can anyone help me with it. I even don't know it is feasible or not.

Here i have an web application which send emails to some users of that app(or any other people) asking about a simple question. It's something like a survey.

Ex: The email which i sent has two buttons. Yes or No. (an answer to a given question). That's all. so I will send this email to many people. And i want them to respond. (Yes or No).

Is there any way to capture the response of the people. I mean if a reader click yes button i want my DB to update it's table according to that. How can I do something like this.

How can i embed something like that button clicking facility to an email. ?

How can i trigger my application about the user events. ?

Is there anyway to achieve a functionality like this ?? please help. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The best way to do that is have the buttons forward to a link on your server and register that on your server using php.

Have button Yes forward to "/surveyResult.php?result=yes" and No forward to "/surveyResult.php?result=no" using HTML.

<a href="www.myserver.com/surveyResult.php?result=yes">Yes</a>
<a href="www.myserver.com/surveyResult.php?result=no">No</a>

in your surveyResult.php do something like this:

<?php
$result = $_GET["name"];
[write the result to your mysql-database]
?>