Coldfusion 8 Upload File

After posting a while back about uploading a file and emailing it using ColdFusion, I was asked to put up a demo of how to upload multiple files using ColdFusion. Till ColdFusion 7, it was not possible to upload a large file. The server could not handle uploading a file of probably anything more than 300-400 MB. After posting a while back about uploading a file and emailing it using ColdFusion, I was asked to put up a demo of how to upload multiple files using ColdFusion.

Using The tag is used for working with files. The action attribute of dictates what action will be performed on the file in question. The table below describes the different actions that can be performed. Actions Action Description read Reads a text file on the server into a local variable. Magiranger Vs Dekaranger Torrent. Read binary Reads a binary file on the server into a local variable.

Write Writes a text file to the server. Append Appends text to a text file on the server. Move Moves a file on the server from one directory to another.

Rename Renames (or moves) a file on the server. Copy Copies a file on the server. Delete Deletes a file from the server. Upload Saves a file to a directory the server. Reading from a File When reading from a file, requires three attributes: Attributes for Reading Files Attribute Description action Must be set to read.

File The absolute path to the file to be read. Variable The variable to hold the contents of the file. In this lesson, we will be working with FilesAndDirs/Logs/RunningLog.txt, which is a tab-delimited text file. Each line is formatted as follows. FilesAndDirs/Demos/RunningLog.cfm Running Log Running Log Add Entry #run# You have apparently never been running.