Title: Automate Database Input
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Automate Database Input

 *  Resolved [joshuuaam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshuuaam/)
 * (@joshuuaam)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automate-database-input/)
 * Hello,
    Brilliant plugin, it’s been great.
 * Our current software which runs our business comes every 5 minutes and takes 
   formatted data out of a table in our website and imports it over to itself, all
   MySQL running from PHP scripts, standard stuff.
 * What I’m trying to do is automate the transfer of input from users into the forms,
   into the table I’m already sending over, so as to prepare it to be collected 
   by the business software which will come over in five minutes.
 * I’ve looked at your MySQL structure, understand what’s going on. What I’m looking
   for is instead of cron jobbing this to happen every 2-5 minutes, I’d like to 
   be able to hook into “something new was entered in the form, I’ve just put it
   into my normal table, please run this PHP script afterwards”.
 * Not sure if this is a feature request or a support ticket.
 * If I haven’t been clear my question, feel free to let me know.
    Thanks for your
   help!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-to-database-extension/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-to-database-extension/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Michael Simpson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msimpson/)
 * (@msimpson)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automate-database-input/#post-7175338)
 * You could use the filter hook: [http://cfdbplugin.com/?page_id=747](http://cfdbplugin.com/?page_id=747)
 * Write some PHP to grab the data and put it into your own table or file.
 *  Thread Starter [joshuuaam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshuuaam/)
 * (@joshuuaam)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automate-database-input/#post-7175356)
 * Looks perfect, appreciate the quick response!

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## Tags

 * [automate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/automate/)
 * [form](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/form/)
 * [MySQL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mysql/)
 * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/)
 * [prepare](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/prepare/)

 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [joshuuaam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshuuaam/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automate-database-input/#post-7175356)
 * Status: resolved