https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/populating-from-and-writing-to-external-database Gravity Support Forums Topic: Populating from and writing to external database en-US Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:57:29 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/populating-from-and-writing-to-external-database#post-317339 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:40:40 +0000 andrew carbn 317339@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hey,<br /> I know this is an old thread, but did you ever get anywhere with this? I'm trying to solve a directly related problem in this thread:<br /> <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/gform_after_submission-writing-to-a-mysql-database?replies=2#post-317312" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/gform_after_submission-writing-to-a-mysql-database?replies=2#post-317312</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/populating-from-and-writing-to-external-database#post-7524 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:36:31 +0000 kpince 7524@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Well, that's what I figured.</p> <p>I'll be looking forward to it.</p> <p>Cheers</p> <p>KP </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/populating-from-and-writing-to-external-database#post-7514 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:16:54 +0000 Carl Hancock 7514@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Gravity Forms itself does not read or write to any external database. It only interacts with it's own tables created in your WordPress install.</p> <p>If you want Gravity Forms to save data to a different database you would have to use the PHP API hooks to do so and write custom PHP to save the form data to the database you want to save it to.</p> <p>If you need to pre-populate field values you can do the same using custom PHP and hooks to pre-populate field values on the form. Keep in mind you can't dynamically create fields, you can only pre-populate the value of fields that exist on the form created in Gravity Forms.</p> <p>We will be launching our new documentation area within the next couple weeks and it will have a complete rundown of ALL the available API hooks, what they do, correct syntax for using them and a sample. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/populating-from-and-writing-to-external-database#post-7511 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:39:13 +0000 kpince 7511@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I have the same problem here myself..still not decided..</p> <p>Need to save and read from another mysql database residing on the same server as wp..</p> <p>Any comments ? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/populating-from-and-writing-to-external-database#post-6402 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:35:17 +0000 Coen Jacobs 6402@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'm working on a project and we're about to decide wether or not use GF for the job. Main concern is populating fields from an external database and write user input to the same external database. I've never done this before and I really don't know what's possible with GF and controlling external databases.</p> <p>There are possibilities to use GF-hooks and custom plugins, but I'm not sure if I'm able to alter what GF will do with the user input. And, even more important, are we able to hook into GF saving the contents/fields of a form so we can adjust the structure of the external database to it? </p>