How to get form data in Contact Form 7

Contact form 7 is a wordpress plugin used to add form in a wordpress website without adding any custom code. Contact form 7 allow us an area in admin panel where we can create as many forms that we want and we can add several fields on a simple click one by one. We can also manage email message, which notify admin or user. We can add multiple email addresses as recover. We can also include file upload option with contact form 7. Most of the websites which are built in wordpress prefer contact form 7.

First we have to check the form is working fine and sent an email to defined email in admin panel. We will use `wpcf7_before_send_mail` hook which is perform automatically when a contact form 7 form submitted successfully. `wpcf7_before_send_mail` will fire before email will sent to the admin. Use below code in functions.php to get form data.

add_action( 'wpcf7_mail_sent', 'custom_wpcf7_mail_sent_function' ); 

function custom_wpcf7_mail_sent_function( $contact_form ) {
    $title = $contact_form->title;  //get contact form name 
    $submission = WPCF7_Submission::get_instance();  
    if ( $submission ) {
        $posted_data = $submission->get_posted_data();
    }
}

How to install contact form 7

• Login wordpress admin panel and click on Add New under Plugins.
• You will see a input search field, enter `Contact Form 7` and hit enter &
• After that click on Install now button. When plugin will installed successfully, click on `Activate` to activate the plugin.