How to use Google analytics to track open rates, c

Question

I have read the document and there is a track code should be able to help me. However, how can i actually use it to get the open rates, url click rates?

For the open rates: I am using swiftmailer to send the mail, is it a way to add the track code (How? Since mail is plain html , no javascript or php is allowed) What i should do in the html/text mail template?

For the url click rates: Is it separate from the mailing? that means i just have to add the link in the page i append in the mail. However, are there ways to do it more automatically? For instance, when the mail is sent, i find the url and add the track code for each link one by one?(But how can i create different track code using php?)

That 's lot of question, sorry.I am inexperience in it, Since it takes sometime to answer the question ,any part of the answer is highly appreciated and i will vote up it. Thank you again

Answer 1

The second part of your question:
If you are creating the email with php, you can easily add customized code to the url GET request, like this:
www.yoururl.com/...?yourvar=345
Then you pass the get variable to js (+validation).
Then on the page itself you can add customized event sending to analytics:

_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'name', value]);