cffile

[RyanG24]

Hi i have a file upload, which user upload an excel file, what i want to do is automaticaly rename the file to the session.user

can this be done if so how would i alter this code

<form action="uploadfile.cfm" method="POST" name="frmupload" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="file_path">
<input type="submit" name="submit_upload" value="upload">
</form>

[Fernis]

You can't rename files with HTML, since HTML is not a programming language. Thus you don't alter your code necessarily at all, but you'll have to add some ColdFusion programming. You can rename the the server-side file after it has been uploaded, using the <CFFILE> tag.

See:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000253.htm
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000252.htm