How to retrieve field labels and values from form submissions?

Hi support,

I need to create a custom report for my Caldera forms because I need to be able to summarize all of the form responses by month.

The problem is I can’t seem to get the form field labels (only the cryptic IDs). I’ve tried directly querying the database as well as using the APIs by include-ing the forms.php class and using the get_fields() function.

I’m fairly new to PHP but I can’t even find the form questions in the database – yet they display in the WordPress back end and on my form… somehow.

What is the trick to displaying the actual questions programmatically?

Thanks!