https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: Drop form table from DB en Sun, 03 May 2026 18:29:47 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/drop-form-table-from-db#post-18780 Sun, 21 Jul 2013 05:59:08 +0000 AMurray 18780@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>When one deletes a form, or entry from Machform Admin, the data itself is not actually deleted by default (it remains in the database) but visually, is removed from the form manager / entries manager etc. The reason for this is that too many users were asking for support from Appnitro in recovering records accidentally deleted in previous versions where there was no safeguard.</p> <p>Introduced in Ver 3.x (I think), there is now a way to choose either to make the system permanently delete records, forms, entries etc from admin forms manager. </p> <p>Around line 25 in config.php, change the setting below to "true".</p> <p><code>define(&#39;MF_CONF_TRUE_DELETE&#39;,false);</code></p> <p>I would use this sparingly as this permanently deletes the record (with no easy recovery). I don't know if this actually also drops the associated table. </p> <p>The only way to recover would be from a sql dump file e.g. exported from phpMyAdmin which can be imported into the DB to restore the data. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/drop-form-table-from-db#post-18775 Sat, 20 Jul 2013 15:17:17 +0000 Giorgio 18775@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Hi</p> <p>If I am not wrong, forms that are deleted in the admin area keep their database table. Is there a way to clean also the database, means drop the form table and all related data in linked tables from the DB? Thanks for your help. </p>