Two database for one site

Resolved aaroncabanas
(@aaroncabanas)

5 years, 5 months ago

Hi!

I am trying to connect another database (appart from the one where everything is installed) to store all the contact form data. Is there any way to do it or you can’t connect more than one database to a single site?

If you can do it, I would appreciate if you can explain it to me in a simple way since im a newby.

Thank you so much!

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corrinarusso
(@corrinarusso)

5 years, 5 months ago

Hm, well – without asking **why** you are doing this.

You can use the wpdb class to connect to any db :
https://developer.ww.wp.xz.cn/reference/classes/wpdb/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10956378/another-database-connection-in-wordpress

Thread Starter aaroncabanas
(@aaroncabanas)

5 years, 5 months ago

Thanks! So for example, I made a contact form with the plugin “Caldera form” and I would like to get that info and store it in the “secondary” database. As I said im a newby so how could I get that output and send it to the database?

You may not know it, but anyways thanks for the info, if I could choose I would do a new table to my current database but I am just following rules from above!

corrinarusso
(@corrinarusso)

5 years, 5 months ago

Just to be clear – are you you sure you mean a second database, and not a ‘custom table in the same database’ ?

You can use the Actions and Hooks from WordPress, and specifically from Caldera – it’s pretty straight forward :
https://calderaforms.com/downloads/run-actions/
using a custom callback :
https://calderaforms.com/doc/custom-processing-of-caldera-forms-submissions/

Thread Starter aaroncabanas
(@aaroncabanas)

5 years, 5 months ago

Yeah, I mean two separated databases, one for wordpress and the other one dedicated exclusively on the contact form data, thanks for the links and for the support!

corrinarusso
(@corrinarusso)

5 years, 5 months ago

Okay – I assume the other db lives on the same localhost then ?

Thread Starter aaroncabanas
(@aaroncabanas)

5 years, 5 months ago

Yep, same host and everything, just a manner to separate the data.

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