Title: Accessing Form Data
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Accessing Form Data

 *  [markf1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markf1/)
 * (@markf1)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessing-form-data/)
 * We have a word press site that contains a reservation form. The form e-mails 
   the data to our e-mail address. There seems to be some problem outside of wordpress
   whereby some of the form data was not e-mailed.
 * My question: Is it possible to access the wordpress MySQL database to examine
   and/or retrieve any form data that may have been entered by a customer but not
   received in our e-mail?
 * Thanks in advance for any help

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 *  [Equal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/equalmark/)
 * (@equalmark)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessing-form-data/#post-1842816)
 * Are you using a plugin to create the form?
 *  Thread Starter [markf1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markf1/)
 * (@markf1)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessing-form-data/#post-1842833)
 * Thank you for your reply!
 * I did not create the form but it appears to me that the form was created using
   a Plug In called Contact Form 7
 * I can access some of the code for the form from the WP dashboard.
 * Thanks for any help. We believe we have not received some submitted reservations.
   We’d like to confirm that and recover, if possible, that info that was not received.
 *  [Equal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/equalmark/)
 * (@equalmark)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessing-form-data/#post-1842834)
 * I am not familiar with Contact Form 7 but I guess that it may store its entries
   in the WordPress database somewhere.
 * Take a look in phpmyadmin and see it is has its own tables.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessing-form-data/#post-1842836)
 * I’m not sure CF7 stores mails unless it’s configured to do so – perhaps by adding
   a second plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [markf1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markf1/)
 * (@markf1)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessing-form-data/#post-1842859)
 * Thanks for your replies. I think that esmi may be correct. I looked at the CF7
   docs and found this info on an extension that we do not appear to have installed.
 * >>Contact Form 7 to Database Extension
    Extension to the Contact Form 7 plugin
   that saves submitted form data to the database. Takes submissions from Contact
   Form 7 plugin, saves them in the database and allows you to export the data. 
   First a disclaimer: I am not the maker of Contact Form 7 or associated with it’s
   author. That being said, I think Contact Form 7 is great…except for one thing.
   It does not save its information to the database. And if you get a lot of form
   submissions, then you end up sorting through a lot of email. Fortunately, the
   author of CF7 created a hook. So I wrote a plugin that hooks into CF7 and saves
   all of its form submissions to the database. You need to have both CF7 and this
   plugin installed and activated. This plugin also puts a menu item in the Administration
   Plugins menu where you can see the data in the database. It’s pretty rudimentary
   but does the job.<<
 * So I’m thinking that, because that extension is not installed, the form data 
   has not been saved to the data base. I’m not sure if there’s any way to retrieve
   this potentially lost (by e-mail) form data. It doesn’t appear that it has been
   stored in any part of the WP database. If it has been stored somewhere in the
   database I don’t know where to look for it.
 *  Thread Starter [markf1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markf1/)
 * (@markf1)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessing-form-data/#post-1842878)
 * I looked at the myPHP manager and I see that there is a record for CF7. It doesn’t
   appear to have much in it. Only 2 records and 15.9K. Yu can see a screenshot 
   here:
 * [http://www.openrangeimaging.com/Test/temp-screenshot01.jpg](http://www.openrangeimaging.com/Test/temp-screenshot01.jpg)
 * I am not very experienced at this. My question is: Does it appear that this might
   contain some of our lost reservation data?
 * Thank you.

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