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.