https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/data-storage-and-manipulation Gravity Support Forums Topic: Data Storage and manipulation. en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:07:43 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/data-storage-and-manipulation#post-38424 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:14:04 +0000 Chris Hajer 38424@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Yes, the <em>prefix</em>_rg_* tables in the database store all the information about individual forms and entries.</p> <p>There is not a new table for each form. Information about each form is stored in _rg_form and _rg_form_meta. There is one record per form in each of those tables. The information stored in the _rg_form_meta table is stored in a serialized array. There's no reason to change this.</p> <p>Gravity Forms has a ton of hooks, filters and functions available for getting the data about leads (the entries) and forms out of the database. There's normally no reason to manipulate the database directly. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/data-storage-and-manipulation#post-38413 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:25:55 +0000 WordpressDeveloper 38413@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi, </p> <p>I was curious about how Gravity forms Stores data. I was actually lucky enough to be able to view a wordpress site which uses the plugin. However when looking at the MySQL databases in the backend I struggled to find user inputted data. I could see this on the wordpress dashboard and I know a requirement of Gravity forms installation is a MySQL database. However as I am not the original developer of the site I am not sure on the specifics. I assume the tables with the wp_rg_prefix store the meta data of the forms? </p> <p>If I created a form named x with a field for email address, which table would store that data specifically? I believe Gravitys backend tables store the data in a more 'meta' fashion and dont create a new table for each new form, rather they do something where all similar types of data are grouped into tables? If I used Gravity forms on a site I created, would I be able to change this?</p> <p> I wouldnt be able to do more than just view what the other developer did so I cant test but I thought I would ask here. Eventually I may want to write php code to manipulate the data gathered in through forms, but if the data is stored in such a meta fashion this would be difficult. As you can probably tell im new to wordpress but I am more comfortable with PHP development. My first hurdle is figuring out how Gravity forms store specific bits of data which are user inputted? </p>