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1. lata_dev
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   I am using Contact Form 7 to send an email whenever someone wants to contact me. It works great. Now I'd also like to create a contact in a db whenever someone tries to contact me.

   From what I read, I created a function which does this and the function works (tried calling it in a static file). But I cannot understand where to add the function call. I added this statement to functions.php in the plugin's admin folder

   add_action('wpcf7_before_send_mail', 'myFunction');

   But the function is not called. I even tried adding it to classes.php but it doesn't get called from there either. The function is as follows

   function myFunction($cf7){
       $firstName = $cf7->posted_data["first_name"];
       $lastName = $cf7->posted_data["last_name"];
       $emailAddr = $cf7->posted_data["email"];
       $companyName = $cf7->posted_data["company"];
       $urlAddr = $cf7->posted_data["URL"];
       $designation = $cf7->posted_data["title"];
   
       //add data to the database here
   }

   Would really appreciate some help. I do not know about wordpress development so cannot be certain if I'm adding the action at the right place.

   Thanks.

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/

2. Takayuki Miyoshi
   Member
   Plugin Author
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Checking out how msimpson's Contact Form 7 to Database Extension does it will help.

3. lata_dev
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Thanks. In the extension, they are adding all actions as
   add_action('wpcf7_before_send_mail', array(&$this, 'saveFormData'));

   But from what I read in the posts in this forum, they add it with just the function name i.e.

   add_action('wpcf7_before_send_mail', 'myFunction');

   How do these 2 actions differ?

4. Takayuki Miyoshi
   Member
   Plugin Author
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   array(&$this, 'saveFormData')

   This is not just a function, but an object method call.

   Functionally, not so different.

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