Writing to text file

Hi,

I have read everything I can find in the cfm book to output from a form into a text file.

The book describes how to do it roughly with the following code;

<cffile action="write" file ="c:\temp\textfile.txt" output ="getlog" addnewline="yes">

I am a bit stuck on how to get the form fields to use this code. How do I input into the file from my form?
Do I use <cfoutput> to dispaly the data once it has been input into the text file?


Thanks

Peter

Your form fields are available in the form scope. So if you had a field called "firstName", you could use it in the CFFILE tag like this:

<cffile action="write" file ="c:\temp\textfile.txt" output ="#form.firstName#" addnewline="yes">

You read the file using cffile action="read".

I would get a better book, because every CF book I've ever seen covers this in great detail. Even the LiveDocs have examples of this, using form fields no less:

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/cold...7.htm#wp1098395

Very helpful as always. thanks

Is it possible to write more then a variable?

For example, I'd like to be able to have CF write entire Javascripts on the fly to specified files.. Since the scripts are more then one line, writting a single variable for it seems tedious.

Is it possible to dump everything between 2 <cfoutput> tags to a variable? Or somehow write more then 1 line to a file?

Thanks!

Thanks a ton, Kiteless!

Can't belive I never saw that...