cffile action = "append"

Description

Appends text to a text file on the server.

Syntax

<cffile 
  action = "append"
  file = "full_path_name"
  output = "string"
  addNewLine = "Yes" or "No"
  attributes = "file_attributes_list">
  mode = "mode"
  charset = "charset_option" > 

See also

cfdirectory

History

New in ColdFusion MX: on Windows platforms, the temporary, archive, and system options of the attributes attribute are deprecated. Do not use them in new applications. They might not work, and might cause an error, in later releases.

New in ColdFusion MX: this action attribute option supports the charset attribute.

Attributes

Attribute Req/Opt Default Description
action
Required
 
Type of file manipulation that the tag performs.
file
Required
 
Absolute pathname of file on web server to which to append content of output attribute.
On Windows, use backward slashes; on UNIX, use forward slashes.
mode
Optional
 
Applies only to Solaris and HP-UX. Permissions. Octal values of Unix chmod command. Assigned to owner, group, and other, respectively. For example:
  • 644: Assigns read/write permission to owner; read permission to group and other
  • 777: Assigns read/write/execute permission to all
output
Required
 
String to append to the file.
addNewLine
Optional
Yes
  • Yes: appends newline character to text written to file
  • No
attributes
Optional
 
One attribute (Windows) or a comma-delimited list of attributes (other platforms) to set on the file.
If omitted, the file's attributes are maintained.
Each value must be specified explicitly. For example, if you specify attributes = "readOnly", all other attributes are overwritten.
  • readOnly
  • hidden
  • normal
charset
Optional
UTF-8
The Java character set name used for the file contents.
The following values are typically used:
  • UTF-8
  • ISO-8859-1
  • UTF-16
  • US-ASCII
  • UTF-16BE
  • UTF-16LE
For a list of character sets, see:
http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset-lang.html

Example

This example appends a text string to the file fieldwork.txt:

<cffile action = "append"
  file = "c:\files\updates\fieldwork.txt" 
output = "<b>But Davis Square is the place to be.</b>">

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