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Performing Directory Operations

Use the CFDIRECTORY tag to return file information from a specified directory and to create, delete, and rename directories.

As with CFFILE, ColdFusion administrators can disable CFDIRECTORY processing in the ColdFusion Administrator Tags page.

CFDIRECTORY Attributes 
Attribute
Description
ACTION
Optional. Defines the action to be taken with directory(ies) specified in DIRECTORY. Valid entries are:
  • List
  • Create
  • Delete
  • Rename

The default is List.

DIRECTORY
Required for all ACTIONs. The name of the directory you want the action to be performed against.
NAME
Required for ACTION="List". Ignored for all other actions. Name of output query for directory listing.
FILTER
Optional for ACTION="List". Ignored for all other actions. Filter to be applied to returned names, for example, "*.cfm"
MODE
Optional. Used only when ACTION="Create" to define the permissions for a directory in Solaris. Ignored in Windows. Valid entries correspond to the octal values (not symbolic) of the Unix chmod command. Permissions are assigned for owner, group, and other, respectively. For example:
MODE=644
assigns the owner read/write permissions and group/
other read permission.

MODE=666
Assigns read/write permissions for 
owner, group, and other.

MODE=777
Assigns read, write, and execute permissions for all. 
SORT
Optional for ACTION="List". Ignored for all other actions. List of query columns to sort directory listing by. Any combination of columns from query output can be specified in comma separated list. ASC or DESC can be specified as qualifiers for column names.
For example, in a CFDIRECTORY tag returning where NAME="mydir", you can sort as follows:
SORT="dirname ASC, filename2 DESC, size, 
datelastmodified"

Where colname is the name of any
column of data returned in the
CFDIRECTORY operation.
NEWDIRECTORY
Required for ACTION="Rename". Ignored for all other actions. The new name of the directory specified in the DIRECTORY attribute.

Returning file information (ACTION="LIST")

When using the ACTION=LIST, CFDIRECTORY returns five result columns you can reference in your CFOUTPUT:

Example

You can use query results columns in standard CFML expressions, preceding the column name with the name of the query:

<CFDIRECTORY
    DIRECTORY="c:\winnt\system32"
    NAME="mydirectory"
    SORT="size ASC, name DESC, datelastmodified">

<CFOUTPUT QUERY="mydirectory">
    Name: #mydirectory.name# <BR>
    Size: #mydirectory.size# <BR>
    Type: #mydirectory.type# <BR>
    Date last modified: #mydirectory.datelastmodified# <BR>
    Attributes: #mydirectory.attributes#<BR>
    Mode: #mydirectory.mode#<BR>
</CFOUTPUT>


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