cffile

Overview ColdFusion Open BlueDragon Lucee

Manages interactions with server files. Different combinations cause different attributes to be required.

Attributes

	Name	Required	Type	Default	Description
	accept	No	String		Limits the MIME types to accept. Comma-delimited list. For example, to permit JPG and Microsoft Word file uploads: accept = "image/jpg, application/msword"
3	acl	No			only used for S3 Resources
	action	Yes	String		Type of file manipulation that the tag performs.
	addnewline	No	Boolean	true	Yes: appends newline character to text written to file
	attributes	No	String		Applies to Windows. A comma-delimited list of attributes to set on the file. If omitted, the file's attributes are maintained.
	charset	No	String		The character encoding in which the file contents is encoded. For more information on character encodings, see: www.w3.org/International/O-charset.html.
4	createpath	No			for action "append", "touch" and "write": if set to false (default), expects all parent directories to exist, true will generate necessary directories
	destination	No	String		Pathname of a directory or file on web server (durring copy).
	file	No	String		Pathname of the file. Also supports ZIP files and files accessed using protocols HTTP, FTP and VFS.
	filefield	No	String		Name of form field used to select the file. Do not use pound signs (#) to specify the field name.
	fixnewline	No	String	false	* Yes: changes embedded line-ending characters in string variables to operating-system specific line endings * No: (default) do not change embedded line-ending characters in string variables.
	mode	No	String		Applies only to UNIX and Linux. Permissions. Octal values of Unix chmod command. Assigned to owner, group, and other, respectively.
	nameconflict	No	String		Action to take if filename is the same as that of a file in the directory.
	output	No	String		String to add to the file
	result	No	VariableName	cffile	Allows you to specify a name for the variable in which cffile returns the result (or status) parameters. If you do not specify a value for this attribute, cffile uses the prefix "cffile".
	serverpassword	No			allow you to access filesystem, also when access is denied for your context
	source	No	String		Pathname of the file (durring copy).
3	storeacl	No			alias for attribute "acl"
10 4	strict	No	Boolean	false	Set strict='true' to have strict mime type checking for mime type specified in "accept" attribute, when action is upload or uploadAll.
	uridirectory	No			Specify if the file location is a full path or a relative path.
	variable	No	String		Name of variable to contain contents of text file.