cffile action = "append"

Appends text to a text file on the server.

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

cfdirectory

See the History section of the main cffile tag page.

Attribute Req/Opt Default Description

action

Required

 

Type of file manipulation that the tag performs.

file

Required

 

Pathname of the file to which to append content of output attribute.

If not an absolute path (starting a with a drive letter and a colon, or a forward or backward slash), it is relative to the ColdFusion temporary directory, which is returned by the GetTempDirectory function.

mode

Optional

 

Applies only to UNIX and Linux. 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

 

Applies to Windows. A comma-delimited list of attributes 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

JVM default file character set.

The character encoding in which the file contents is encoded. The following list includes commonly used values:

  • utf-8
  • iso-8859-1
  • windows-1252
  • us-ascii
  • shift_jis
  • iso-2022-jp
  • euc-jp
  • euc-kr
  • big5
  • euc-cn
  • utf-16

For more information character encodings, see:
www.w3.org/International/O-charset.html.

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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