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" >

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

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>">

Version 6

Comments are no longer accepted for ColdFusion MX. ColdFusion 8 is the current version.

Comments

mkbris said on Apr 11, 2003 at 12:54 AM :

There should not be a closing angle bracked (>) after the 'attributes' attribute of the <cffile action="append"> tag.

geri said on Jun 2, 2003 at 2:05 PM :

why does cffile parse the output-sting ? for example it is not possible to write out a sting, that embeds a timestamp-formatted section. { ts xx:xx:00 ... }. cfas gives an error 'java.math.BigDecimal', althow it should not matter what string i'll write out.

we had to work around this really ugly bug by manipulation the outputsting in replacing the '{ ts ' with '{ tx ', so cfas no longer could see a timestamp!

why is this so ??? help us and fix this bug, please !
in previous version of cfas everything worked fine.

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