Application form to Database

Hey guys,

I’m working on a application form and I want to be able to store submitted information into a database.
For now, (because I have little experience) I have two tools in use: “Contact Form 7″ and ” Contact Form DB” where the latter one stores the submitted information into a DB in WordPress, which I can then export and work with.
I’m now thinking whether it might be better to create an HTML Form That stores data in a MySQL Database using PHP so I have more freedom in creating the form and so the Data is saved directly into the mySQL Database I want.

HOWEVER, if there is a way to automatically load the database that the Plugin creates into the mySQL Database of my choosing, so that I don’t have to do it manually all the time.. that would be fine.

Does anybody have an idea how to do this ?

Thanks in advance!