Search on files names in directory

[Newsgroup_User]

Hello - I have a client who is wanting to allow visitors to search for
files (by file name only) within a particular directory. The results
page would then show a link to the document which could be a .pdf or a
.doc. What is the best way to handle this search?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Steve Miller

[craigkaminsky]

You can use cfdirectory for this. It returns a query, with one of the columns being "name".

<cfdirectory directory="#fullPathToDirectory#" action="list" name="qryFiles"/>

If you are not familiar with what gets returned, use cfdump when you are testing it so that you can see both directory contents but the column names as well:
<cfdump var="#qryFiles#"/>

From here, you can output results from the directory search as you would a 'normal' query.

<cfoutput query="qryFiles">
<a href="#qryFile.name#">#qryFile.name#</a><br/>
</cfoutput>

etc...

Hope this helps!
Craig

[Newsgroup_User]

Craig you rock! That's exactly what I needed.

Thank you,
Steve Miller

craigkaminsky wrote:

>You can use cfdirectory for this. It returns a query, with one of the columns
>being "name".
>
> <cfdirectory directory="#fullPathToDirectory#" action="list" name="qryFiles"/>
>
> If you are not familiar with what gets returned, use cfdump when you are
>testing it so that you can see both directory contents but the column names as
>well:
> <cfdump var="#qryFiles#"/>
>
> From here, you can output results from the directory search as you would a
>'normal' query.
>
> <cfoutput query="qryFiles">
> <a href="#qryFile.name#">#qryFile.name#</a><br/>
> </cfoutput>
>
> etc...
>
> Hope this helps!
> Craig
>
>
>