Saving contact form 7 data into custom db and not wordpress db

Question

I am using contact form 7 for creating my form and I have a custom db hosted in the same server that should contain the related data.

I want to store the data from t

Answer 1

Follow the steps to store contact form 7 data in custom table:

1) Create Custom table

 CREATE TABLE candidate(
  id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
  title VARCHAR(50)
);

2) Create contact form 7 fields

[text* title]
[submit "Send"]

3) Add Below code to function.php

  function contactform7_before_send_mail( $form_to_DB ) {
    //set your db details
    $mydb = new wpdb('root','','cistom_db','localhost');

    $form_to_DB = WPCF7_Submission::get_instance();
    if ( $form_to_DB ) 
        $formData = $form_to_DB->get_posted_data();
    $title = $formData['title'];

    $mydb->insert( 'candidate', array( 'title' =>$title ), array( '%s' ) );
}
remove_all_filters ('wpcf7_before_send_mail');
add_action( 'wpcf7_before_send_mail', 'contactform7_before_send_mail' );

Hope this works for you.