https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/retrieving-form-data-with-php Gravity Support Forums Topic: Retrieving form data with php en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:49:55 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/retrieving-form-data-with-php#post-13293 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:34:41 +0000 michaelbyrd123 13293@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks, I'm gonna go ahead and take your advice and create a separate table. Now That I think about it, with all my other forms I'll be doing alot of unnecesary queries if I do it this way. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/retrieving-form-data-with-php#post-13290 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:27:42 +0000 urmedia 13290@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>if you have multiple forms being saved then it might not be the best option. Depending how big your website data grows to based on form data, I would probably optimize the database a bit by creating a seperate table.</p> <p>You would want to do this from within MySQL, however. Otherwise you'll be messing around with GF in order to send the data to a different location (unless you output it to a different page and store from there).</p> <p>For a larger database it will be easier to manage the primary keys, indexes, and so on in a seperate table. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/retrieving-form-data-with-php#post-13289 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:19:16 +0000 michaelbyrd123 13289@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks,</p> <p>I ended up directly grabbing the information straight from the gravity lead, and lead detail table, and parsing the entries into individual rows from there. Is there anything wrong with this approach, or would it be better to create a separate database, and use the form redirect? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/retrieving-form-data-with-php#post-13287 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:51:59 +0000 urmedia 13287@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>You can use PHP to retrieve data from MySQL like any other approach.</p> <p>Gravity forms saves the data as a post, or other format...but</p> <p>It also allows you to redirect the form data, on submit, as form variables to another page instead of directly placing it in the database. You could then use the variables to do anything you like. Toss in some Ajax to add the data to your calendar database and the client will be none-the-wiser. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/retrieving-form-data-with-php#post-13280 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:41:28 +0000 michaelbyrd123 13280@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Is there any clean function or anything for retrieving form data? I need to use submitted forms to populate a calendar with the results, and am new to gravity forms. </p>