Hi @shafshaf, I believe the problem is this:
Note that the [_post_*] tag has value only when you put the contact form into content of a post or a page. They are not available if the contact form is put inside a sidebar widget.
–Contact Form 7 Special Mail Tags
As Michael explained, if the options are set to “true” in the plugin settings, CFDB calls the page title and URL from:
wpcf7_special_mail_tag('', '_post_title', '');
wpcf7_special_mail_tag('', '_post_url', '');
In your case, these aren’t generated because neither form is in the loop. The one at the bottom of the page is in the footer, and you mentioned that the sticky box is placed in a sidebar widget .
Getting the page URL is easier than the title. Simply add this to your functions file or custom plugin:
function set_cf7_page_url($formData) {
$formData->posted_data['page-url'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
return $formData;
}
add_filter('cfdb_form_data', 'set_cf7_page_url');
This will work for all your CF7 forms, so you can set that option in the plugin settings to “false.”
To save the post/page title of forms placed outside of the loop, the only thing I was able to figure out was installing the Contact Form 7 Dynamic Text Extension plugin.
Once installed, add this to both the footer and sidebar forms (in the CF7 edit screen):
[dynamichidden page-title "CF7_get_post_var key='title'"]
CFDB will automatically save the submitted data, but note that the column headings won’t be the same when you view the data (“Page Title” for forms that don’t have the dynamic hidden field when the plugin option is set to “true,” versus “page-title” for forms using the dynamic hidden field.) To make everything uniform, you could add the dynamic hidden field to all your forms and set the plugin option to “false”.
And if you’re using the dynamic text plugin, then you could just add a dynamic hidden field for URLs to all your forms, and you wouldn’t need to add the code snippet above to the functions file.
Hope this helps!
