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- Managing Form Submissions
- Searching and Filtering Submissions
- Submission Tracking Data
- Customizing Submission Columns
- Editing Submissions
- Deleting Submissions
- Importing Submissions
- Exporting Submissions
- Exporting Submissions with a Webhook URL
- Tracking the User's IP Address
- Disable Submission Storage
- Increment a Count on Each Submission
- Auto-Delete Old Submissions
- Auto-Save Each Submission to a JSON file
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- Set up Auto-Responder Emails
- Email the Person Who Filled Out the Form
- Send an Email Only When a Checkbox Is Checked
- Attach the Submission PDF to Emails
- Send Email Based on Drop Down Selection
- Send Different Email Content Based on Form Responses
- Styling Emails with CSS
- Sending Plain-Text Alternative Body Emails
- Troubleshooting Email Delivery
- Tracking Sent Emails
- Resending Emails
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- Browser Autocomplete for Form Fields
- Redirect to a Menu Item After Form Submission
- Show a Form Only to Logged-In Users
- Adding an “Other” Option
- Adding a Unique ID to Each Form Submission
- Show or Hide Form Fields Based on User Joomla User Group
- Scroll the Page to the Top When a Long Form is Submitted
- Display Submissions Count for a Specific Form
- Populate Drop Down, Radio Buttons or Checkboxes with a CSV File
- Silently POST Submitted Data to Any API or URL
- Create a Custom Login Form
- Auto-Populate Fields with Article Data
- Add a placeholder text to a Dropdown field
- Create Multilingual Forms in Joomla
- Redirect User to a URL After Form Submission
- Importing and Exporting Forms
- Display Convert Forms in a popup
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- Minimum Time to Submit
- Restrict Form Submissions Based on IP
- Enforcing a Custom Password Policy in Convert Forms
- Add Cloudflare Turnstile to your Joomla Form
- Implement the Iubenda Consent Database in Joomla with Convert Forms
- Add Custom Validations to Fields and Forms
- Add Math Captcha to your Form
- Prevent a Field From Saving in the Database
- Add hCaptcha to your Form
- Enable Double Opt-in
- Allow Form Submissions in Specific Date Range
- Ensure a Unique Value is Entered Into a Field
- Block Form Submissions Containing Profanity (Bad Words)
- Block Email Addresses or Email Domains
- Honeypot
- Setting Up Google reCAPTCHA
- Create GDPR Compliant Forms
Auto-Delete Old Submissions
Heads up! This article contains PHP code and is intended for developers. We offer this code as a courtesy, but don't provide support for code customizations or 3rd party development.
Would you like to automatically delete old submissions that are older than a specific amount of days? This is quite useful when you don't want to keep old submissions and would like to automatically remove them instead of manually going over them. The following PHP snippet will allow you to automatically delete old submissions.
Setup
To delete your old submissions, copy the code shown below and place it into the PHP Scripts → After Form Submission area of your form.
// Set how long the submissions need to be in order to be deleted
$total_days_ago = 5;
// Do not edit below
$form_id = $submission→form_id;
$query = $db→getQuery(true)
→select('*')
→from($db→quoteName('#__convertforms_conversions'))
→where($db→quoteName('form_id') . ' = ' . $form_id)
→where('DATE(created) < DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL ' . $total_days_ago . ' DAY)');
$db→setQuery($query);
$rows = $db→loadObjectList();
foreach ($rows as $key => $row)
{
ConvertForms\Api::removeSubmission($row→id);
}
Remember to set how long your submissions needs to be in order to be removed by setting the variable $total_days_ago
Last updated on Jun 22nd 2026 15:06