Where Does Collected Data Go?

  • Resolved rwrider

    (@rwrider)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    I am looking to incorporate a form into my site still under development. I am a little experienced in WordPress, just getting started. So, just some short questions for now.

    Where does the data go?

    I am looking at lots of contact forms on the web. They fall into two classes. 1. They are seemly easy as this one. 2. Or, they are extremely complicated when the developer wishes to use an external database such as MySQL.

    Actually, I favor the use of MySQL as a separate database (not separate database engine) for collecting the data, and I provide my own queries to retrieve the collected form data.

    I appreciate any comments, please!

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/si-contact-form/

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • mbrsolution

    (@mbrsolution)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Hi rwrider I can tell you that this forms uses a plugin to export all the data if that helps you with your question.

    Regards

    Thread Starter rwrider

    (@rwrider)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks mbrsolution,

    Your suggestion is more of a manual solution, if I understand what I read about the plugin. However, it is a good compromise solution favoring simplicity over a much more complicated solution to write the form directly to an external database.

    If I can learn enough about WordPress, PHP and others processes it takes to insert to the external database, that would be my choice since I am very familiar with MySQL from both a db admin and SQL query language.

    mbrsolution

    (@mbrsolution)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Hi rwrider did my solution provide you with an answer to your question? If it did can you mark this support thread as resolved.

    Thank you

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

The topic ‘Where Does Collected Data Go?’ is closed to new replies.