contact form DB conflict with contact form 7

  • Resolved Wenton

    (@wenton)


    10 years, 2 months ago

    Hello to the author of the plugin Michael Simpson (and anyone else reading this)

    I have used contact form DB for several months now and it is a wonderful plugin, the only free plugin of its kind as far as I have seen.

    CONFLICT DISCOVERY
    However, I believe your plugin is conflicting with contact form 7 and is causing EVERY SINGLE contact form submission to be rejected as spam. See the results of my tests as below:

    I have several wordpress installations and have discovered the following:

    ? contact form DB version 2.8.8 OR earlier – no conflict with contact form 7, all submissions being accepted as per CF7 default settings and NO spam filtering of any kind.

    ? contact form DB version 2.8.10 OR later – major conflict with contact form 7 which results in contact form 7 referring EVERY SINGLE submission as spam and therefore rejecting the submission. But as mentioned above, this is with CF7 default settings and NO spam filtering of any kind

    ? In the case of CFDB version 2.8.10 or later, once I deactivate the plugin it is indeed the case that CF7 works fine and accepts submissions as per the default settings.

    MORE DETAILS
    ? I have tested the above with the following versions of contact form 7:
    3.8.1
    3.9.1
    3.9.2
    3.9.3

    ? I have tested the above with the following versions of contact form DB:
    2.8.1
    2.8.8
    2.8.10
    2.8.13
    2.8.14

    ? I have tested the above on the following versions of wordpress:
    3.8.2
    3.9.1
    3.9.2
    4.0.0

    SUMMARY
    In each scenario and each combination the cause of CF7 rejecting EVERY SINGLE submission as spam was when contact form DB version 2.8.10 OR later was activated.

    I really hope you can fix this because CFDB is a great and much needed plugin.

    Thanks

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/contact-form-7-to-database-extension/

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  • Plugin Author Michael Simpson

    (@msimpson)

    Thank you very much for your thorough investigation. I appreciate all the time it must have taken. I’ll look at the changes between 2.8.8 and 2.8.10 and see if I can figure out the problem (which I’m still not able to reproduce).

    Thread Starter Wenton

    (@wenton)

    Hi there

    I appreciate your comments very much and look forward to a good outcome.

    I am so surprised that your plugin is the only one of it’s kind. I am surprised you “only” have have 992,218 downloads when contact form 7 and fast secure contact form combined have over 25million downloads – How are other people storing their form sumissions??!!

    Any way, please can you provide me with a zip copy of version 2.8.8 or earlier please? I really need it for a couple of client sites (as well as my own). both myself and my clients are kind of lost without CFDB, it is very important for us.

    Please can you provide this? I’d love you forever if you can do that!

    I await

    Thanks a lot.

    Plugin Author Michael Simpson

    (@msimpson)

    You should be able to download older versions at: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/contact-form-7-to-database-extension/developers/

    Including version 2.8.8

    I have a suspicion about what might be the culprit. Are you willing to test a change to the code?
    – In the WP admin pages, go to Plugins, under Contact Form DB click Edit
    – Find the link for CF7DBPlugin.php and click it to edit
    – Search for this line of code (line 275)
    add_action('wpcf7_posted_data', array(&$this, 'generateSubmitTimeForCF7'));
    – comment it out so that it looks like:
    //add_action('wpcf7_posted_data', array(&$this, 'generateSubmitTimeForCF7'));
    – test a submission.

    Thread Starter Wenton

    (@wenton)

    Hi

    What WONDERFUL support.

    I’ve just followed your instructions, sent (several) test submissions and I can confirm it has solved the issue.

    You beautiful man!

    Thanks

    Plugin Author Michael Simpson

    (@msimpson)

    I’m going to push a fix version 2.8.15. But the fix is slightly different than what I suggested for you (more targeted). Would you please test that and let me know if it is OK?

    Thank you.

    Thread Starter Wenton

    (@wenton)

    sure, yes that’s fine.

    I await your instructions.

    Thanks

    Plugin Author Michael Simpson

    (@msimpson)

    Just update the plugin in the plugin’s page when it indicates there is a new version available.

    Thread Starter Wenton

    (@wenton)

    updated to version 2.8.15 and sent several test submissions, it works just fine.

    Plugin Author Michael Simpson

    (@msimpson)

    Awesome. Couldn’t have fixed it without you. Thanks!

    what fabulous teamwork you guys exhibited – and we all get to benefit! thank you!

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