These are functional examples that you can copy and paste directly into your project, in whole or in part.
Some examples are compatible with the free version of the plug-in and others require the commercial version. Each example includes a label indicating the version of the plug-in with which it is compatible.
Reads the information of the logged user (login, email, first name, and last name) with the cf7-recordset field [cf7-recordset id="user-data" type="user" attributes="user_login,user_email,first_name,last_name" logged="1"]
<label> User login
[text* user-login] </label>
<label> User email
[email* user-email] </label>
<label> First name
[text first-name] </label>
<label> Last name
[text last-name] </label>
<label> Subject
[text* your-subject] </label>
<label> Your message (optional)
[textarea your-message] </label>
[cf7-recordset id="user-data" type="user" attributes="user_login,user_email,first_name,last_name" logged="1"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="user-data" field="user-login" value="user_login"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="user-data" field="user-email" value="user_email"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="user-data" field="first-name" value="first_name"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="user-data" field="last-name" value="last_name"]
Filling plain texts in the form with the first name and last name of the logged user with the cf7-recordset field [cf7-recordset id="user-data" type="user" attributes="first_name,last_name" logged="1"]
<label> Hello <span id="first-name"></span> <span id="last-name"></span>
[cf7-recordset id="user-data" type="user" attributes="first_name,last_name" logged="1"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="user-data" field="first-name" value="first_name"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="user-data" field="last-name" value="last_name"]
Reads the first and last name of the logged user and uses templates to concatenate them before filling a text field in the form.
<label> First and last name
[text user-name] </label>
[cf7-recordset id="user-data" type="user" attributes="first_name,last_name" logged="1"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="user-data" field="user-name" value="{template.user-name}"]
<template id="user-name">{attribute.first_name} {attribute.last_name}</template>
Reads the users list (Ids, logins, and emails) with the cf7-recordset field [cf7-recordset id="users-data" type="user" attributes="ID,user_login,user_email"]
Fill in the email field with the email address of the selected user [cf7-link-field recordset="users-data" field="user-email" value="user_email" condition="record['ID'] == {field.users-list}"]
<label> Users
[select users-list] </label>
<label> User email
[email* user-email] </label>
[cf7-recordset id="users-data" type="user" attributes="ID,user_login,user_email"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="users-data" field="users-list" value="ID" text="user_login"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="users-data" field="user-email" value="user_email" condition="record['ID'] == {field.users-list}"]
Get the ids and titles of published posts [cf7-recordset id="posts-data" type="post" attributes="ID,post_title" condition="post_status='publish' AND post_type='post'"]
<label> Posts
[select posts-list] </label>
[cf7-recordset id="posts-data" type="post" attributes="ID,post_title" condition="post_status='publish' AND post_type='post'"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="posts-data" field="posts-list" value="ID" text="post_title"]
Get the published posts data [cf7-recordset id="posts-data" type="post" attributes="ID,post_title,post_status,post_type"], but list only the published posts by filtering them with a callback function.
<script>
function filtering_records(records){
var processed_records = [];
for(var i in records){
if(records[i]['post_status'] == 'publish' && records[i]['post_type'] == 'post') {
processed_records.push(records[i]);
} }
return processed_records;
}
</script>
<label> Posts
[select posts-list] </label>
[cf7-recordset id="posts-data" type="post" attributes="ID,post_title,post_status,post_type" callback="filtering_records"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="posts-data" field="posts-list" value="ID" text="post_title"]
Get the titles and excerpts of published posts [cf7-recordset id="posts-data" type="post" attributes="post_title,post_excerpt,guid" condition="post_status='publish' AND post_type='post'"] and display them using templates.
<div id="posts-list"></div>
[cf7-recordset id="posts-data" type="post" attributes="post_title,post_excerpt,guid" condition="post_status='publish' AND post_type='post'"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="posts-data" field="posts-list" value="{template.post-summary}" limit="10"]
<template id="post-summary">
<h2><a href="{attribute.guid}">{attribute.post_title}</a></h2>
<p>{attribute.post_excerpt}</p>
</template>
Get the ids and titles of published products [cf7-recordset id="products" type="post" attributes="ID,post_title" condition="post_status='publish' AND post_type='product'"] using the posts data source, and the price of the selected product from database [cf7-recordset id="price" type="database" engine="mysql" query="SELECT meta_value FROM {wpdb.postmeta} WHERE post_id={field.products-list} AND meta_key='_price'"]
<label> Products
[select products-list] </label>
<label> Price
[number product-price] </label>
[cf7-recordset id="products" type="post" attributes="ID,post_title" condition="post_status='publish' AND post_type='product'"]
[cf7-recordset id="price" type="database" engine="mysql" query="SELECT meta_value FROM {wpdb.postmeta} WHERE post_id={field.products-list} AND meta_key='_price'"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="products" field="products-list" value="ID" text="post_title"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="price" field="product-price" value="meta_value" text="post_title"]
Get the departments list by calling a Javascript function [cf7-recordset id="departments_data" type="client" function="departments_details"]
<label> Departments
[select departments-list] </label>
<label> Director
[text director] </label>
<label> Contact email
[email email] </label>
<script>
function departments_details(){
return [{
department: 'Marketing',
director: 'John Doe',
email: 'marketing@company.com'
},{
department: 'I+D',
director: 'Jane Doe',
email: 'idg@company.com'
},{
department: 'Sales',
director: 'Jacqueline Smith',
email: 'sales@company.com'
}];
}
</script>
[cf7-recordset id="departments_data" type="client" function="departments_details"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="departments_data" field="departments-list" text="department" value="department"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="departments_data" field="director" value="director" condition="record['department'] == '{field.departments-list}'"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="departments_data" field="email" value="email" condition="record['department'] == '{field.departments-list}'"]
Get the terms in the "Category" taxonomy using the taxonomy data source [cf7-recordset id="category-terms" type="taxonomy" taxonomy="category" attributes="term_id,name"] and the post list associated with the selected term, by using the database data source [cf7-recordset id="posts-list" type="database" engine="mysql" query="SELECT ID,post_title from {wpdb.posts} LEFT JOIN {wpdb.term_relationships} ON ({wpdb.posts}.ID = {wpdb.term_relationships}.object_id) WHERE {wpdb.term_relationships}.term_taxonomy_id = {field.categories}"]
<label> Categories
[select categories] </label>
<label> Posts
[select posts] </label>
[cf7-recordset id="category-terms" type="taxonomy" taxonomy="category" attributes="term_id,name"]
[cf7-recordset id="posts-list" type="database" engine="mysql" query="SELECT ID,post_title from {wpdb.posts} LEFT JOIN {wpdb.term_relationships} ON ({wpdb.posts}.ID = {wpdb.term_relationships}.object_id) WHERE {wpdb.term_relationships}.term_taxonomy_id = {field.categories}"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="category-terms" field="categories" value="term_id" text="name"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="posts-list" field="posts" value="ID" text="post_title"]
Get the terms in the "Category" taxonomy associated with the post where the form is inserted[cf7-recordset id="category-terms" type="taxonomy" taxonomy="category" attributes="term_id,name" in="{post.id}"]
<label> Terms
[select terms] </label>
[cf7-recordset id="category-terms" type="taxonomy" taxonomy="category" attributes="term_id,name" in="{post.id}"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="category-terms" field="terms" value="term_id" text="name"]
Uses the CSV data source to read a CSV file with the list of countries and their information [cf7-recordset id="country-data" type="csv" url="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datasets/country-codes/master/data/country-codes.csv" headline="1" delimiter=","]
It fills the other fields in the form with the data of the country selected.
<label> Country list
[select country-list] </label>
<label> Region name
[text region-name] </label>
<label> Capital
[text capital] </label>
<label> Language
[text language] </label>
[cf7-recordset id="country-data" type="csv" url="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datasets/country-codes/master/data/country-codes.csv" headline="1" delimiter=","]
[cf7-link-field recordset="country-data" field="country-list" value="official_name_en" text="official_name_en" condition="record['official_name_en']!=''"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="country-data" field="region-name" value="Region Name" condition="record['official_name_en']=="{field.country-list}""]
[cf7-link-field recordset="country-data" field="capital" value="Capital" condition="record['official_name_en']=="{field.country-list}""]
[cf7-link-field recordset="country-data" field="language" value="Languages" condition="record['official_name_en']=="{field.country-list}""]
Get the stock information from the external service https://www.alphavantage.co by using the JSON data source.
It fills the other fields in the form with the stock data.
<label>Stock Symbol
[text symbol "IBM"]</label>
<label>Open
[text open]</label>
<label>High
[text high]</label>
<label>High
[text low]</label>
<label>Price
[text price]</label>
[cf7-recordset id="stock-data" type="json" url="https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=GLOBAL_QUOTE&symbol={field.symbol}&apikey=12U67PHYF9R5QVIR"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="stock-data" field="open" value="02. open"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="stock-data" field="high" value="03. high"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="stock-data" field="low" value="04. low"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="stock-data" field="price" value="05. price"]
Get the list of post category terms by calling a server side function implemented with the "Server Side" add-on.
Server Side Function:
$GLOBALS['SERVER_SIDE_DATASOURCE']['categories'] = function(){
$categories_list = [];
$get_categories = function($term_id = 0, $level = 0) use (&$get_categories, &$categories_list){
$args = [
'taxonomy' => 'category',
'orderby' => 'name',
'show_count' => true,
'pad_counts' => false,
'hierarchical' => true,
'hide_empty' => false,
'parent' => $term_id
];
$categories = get_categories($args);
foreach ( $categories as $category ) {
$category->name = str_repeat(" ", $level*2).$category->name;
$categories_list[] = (array) $category;
$get_categories( $category->term_id, $level+1);
}
};
$get_categories();
return $categories_list;
};
Form structure:
<label>Category list [select category-list]</label>
[cf7-recordset id="category-records" type="server" function="categories"]
[cf7-link-field recordset="category-records" field="category-list" value="term_id" text="name"]