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HI. I have created a simple form CF7.
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Where does the data actually get stored?
Can I define the table to store the data? How?
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I read in another post about adding the savedata to the end of the form but I can't see how.
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Paul

you should add a "Save Data" action to the last page of the form (usually, unless you have other reasons to save the data earlier)
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You should check the video tutorials from the link in my signature, it will show you how to use actions in general!

Thanks for your response.
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I have added the Save Data action and the External Database but I am still getting nowhere.
How do I setup the connection to the external database. In this case?
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Hi,
I managed to fathom out database connection for 'read' with the following script applied to the HTML / RUN PHP actions.
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<?php

// Get the Joomla user info
$user =& JFactory::getUser();
$name = '';
$email = '';
$readonly = '';
if ( $user->id > 0 ) {
$ID = $user->id;
$UserName = $user->username;
$readonly = "readonly='readonly'";
}

//Setup the LFT database connection (LFT_DATA not the Joomla instance)
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "LFT_DataUser";
$password = "[Ur1dirm3p]";
$dbname = "LFT_DATA";

// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

$sql = "SELECT JoomlaID, SiteID, SiteName FROM SiteDetails"; // where Joomla UserID = SiteID or something like that.
$result = $conn->query($sql);

if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
// output data of each row
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
echo "Joomla id: " . $row["JoomlaID"]. "<br>". "Site Name: " . $row["SiteName"]. "<br>". "Site Id: " . $row["SiteID"]. "<br>";
}
} else {
echo "0 results";
}
$conn->close();
?>

It's a bit clumsy but OK for this test.
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What I want to know now is can I assign the values to a field on the form. Ie create a text field called Site ID and have it display what is in $row["SiteID"]
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Paul