Title: [Plugin: WordPress Form Manager] Import Feature?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WordPress Form Manager] Import Feature?

 *  [Daniel Schutzsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schutzsmith/)
 * (@schutzsmith)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-form-manager-import-feature/)
 * First off, love this plugin – best forms plugin out there!
 * My question: is there a way to import data into a form? I can see that we have
   the ability to export, but I also have about 300+ records that I’d like to start
   with so I’m trying to figure out how I can import them in rather than have to
   manually add them all via the form on the front-end.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-form-manager/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-form-manager/)

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 *  Plugin Author [hoffcamp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hoffcamp/)
 * (@hoffcamp)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-form-manager-import-feature/#post-2323803)
 * I’m glad you like the plugin! The best way to get this done would be to do this
   from within MySQL. Most hosts have phpMyAdmin which can process bulk inserts 
   from a file, but don’t as me about details. You don’t have to worry about the
   timestamp/user/user_ip fields, but unique_id has to be something unique for each
   row. Other than that you should be fine. The data table will be something like‘
   wp_fm_data_1’, where the ‘1’ will correspond to the ID of your form. You can 
   figure this out either from the ‘wp_fm_forms’ table.
 *  Thread Starter [Daniel Schutzsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schutzsmith/)
 * (@schutzsmith)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-form-manager-import-feature/#post-2323872)
 * Terrific! I was able to figure it out. Ended up using a mixture of PHPMyAdmin
   and SequelPro on the Mac.
 * One question, is there a way to auto define those unique_id’s? Ive got about 
   550 of these and really don’t want to have to edit every entry if I don’t have
   to 😉
 * Thanks again!
 *  Plugin Author [hoffcamp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hoffcamp/)
 * (@hoffcamp)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-form-manager-import-feature/#post-2323907)
 * You could do it with a php script. for a given data table, go through the column
   names, and change column name and the corresponding unique_id in the fm_items
   table to whatever you want. You would still have to build a master list of new/
   old names. If your item labels are unique across all forms, you could use the
   sanitize_title() function to generate a ‘unique_id’ based on the item label, 
   or maybe the item label and a random number. At the moment I forget how long 
   the unique_id field is, but something like that could work.

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