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

See the History section of the main cffile tag page.

 
Example
<!--The first example creates the file \temp\foo on a windows system and sets 
attributes to normal. --->
<cffile action = "write" file = "\temp\foo" attributes = normal output = "some 
text"> 
<!--- The second example appends to the file. --->
<cffile action = "append" file = "\temp\foo" attributes = normal output = "Is 
this a test?">
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
 
Default value: "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
 
Default value: "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, seewww.w3.org/International/O-charset.html.
FIXNEWLINE  
  Optional
 
Default value: "No"
  • Yes: changes embedded line-ending characters in string variables to operating-system specific line endings
  • No: (default) do not change embedded line-ending characters in string variables.

See "cffile action = "write"" for an example that uses this attribute.