Does more than it appears

  • exaur

    (@exaur)


    5 years, 7 months ago

    I have used CFDB since the original by M Simpson and have found it the best way (for me as a non-PHP MySQL expert) to access database tables for forms. The documentation is good I used for a web based noticeboard via the shortcode builder. I have used with CF7 and Jetpack Forms with no issues. The new version has good new features though now branded as Contactic which looks a little less obvious as a flexible DB management plugin name I am sure this method of inputting and retrieving data has loads of uses in addition to contact dababases. Last update looks quite some time ago so hopefully it is still supported. I did have some issues with the old CFDB and later PHP versions but no longer an issue with this plugin.

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  • ldeschenes

    (@ldeschenes)

    5 years, 7 months ago

    @exaur

    I also have been a long time user CFDB by M Simpson and still used it.
    I am looking for a replacement plugin.
    I understand that you had a good experience switching to Contactic.

    When you switch from CFDB to Contactic what were the conversion steps you had to do ?
    Is Contactic storing the data in the same DB tables CFDB was ?

    Thanks in adance

    Thread Starter exaur

    (@exaur)

    5 years, 7 months ago

    Hi Ideschenes
    I’m afraid I have not done a migration from one to the other, I have CFDB on an old site and I installed Contactic on a different site, so no migration yet. I will be updating my old site in the future, but I do not know when. If I remember I will let you know how it goes. I cannot promise no problems but I will assume that it leaves the tables where they are. I suppose It is possible that it will not see your existing data because it seems to “configure” itself as new entries come in, but I am not very expert in these matters. If you have a paid version of CFDB maybe it will not do everything, but I didn’t check yet.

    ldeschenes

    (@ldeschenes)

    5 years, 7 months ago

    @exaur

    Thanks for you feedback!

    I did some more reading in the support forum and it does look like it would be mostly transparent (same tables, same shortcodes, etc.).

    I will do a test in dev environment.

    Thanks again for the quick reply!

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