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.

 
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>">
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
 
Default value: "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
 
Default value: "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