CFML Reference
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ColdFusion Tags
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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 |
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Description |
action
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Required
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Type of file manipulation that the tag performs.
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file
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Required
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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.
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mode
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Optional
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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
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output
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Required
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String to append to the file.
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addNewLine
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Optional
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Yes
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- Yes: appends newline character to text written to file
- No
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attributes
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Optional
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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.
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charset
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Optional
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UTF-8
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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
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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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