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
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
 

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, see:www.w3.org/International/O-charset.html.