cffile author,comments and other attributes

[goingflex]

I would like to upload the author name, comments and other data with the cffile action=upload. Anyone already solved this or has a way of doing this?

[Guest]

Something like this:

<form action="next.cfm" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
Author: <input type="Text" name="author"><br>
File: <input type="File" name="aFileName"><br>
<input type="Submit" value="ok">
</form>

Then on your processing page, you'll have access to all the form fields (including the file name that you can upload with cffile.

[goingflex]

thank you so much for taking the time to help me out.
I am willing to know how to attach an author name in a cffile attribute.
Namely: when I use cffile in a cffunction such as:

<cffile action="upload" filefield="filedata" destination= "#destination#" nameconflict="makeunique" accept="application/octet-stream"/>

how can I hope to find a way of attaching attributes such as author and other attributes to the file being uploaded?

[virtually_john]

AFAIK you can not attach those attributes directly to a file.

Normal practice is to have a database table which has the data inserted for each file uploaded.

[goingflex]

John
When I query the file object I have
Attributes
DateLastModified
Size
Type
Mode
Name
However you know that every file has a list of references in its properties in which you can see the
author name
commentary
and some more attribtutes attached.

How do I access these attributes is the question.

Since we can access them through a windows file explorer we should have these somewhere?

[BKBK]

Goingflex wrote:
When I query the file object

With which code?

[cf_dev2]

I suspect they're using cfdirectory based on the list of attributes (DateLastModified, size, type, mode, name ...)

[cf_dev2]

> How do I access these attributes is the question.
> Since we can access them through a windows file explorer we should
> have these somewhere?

Not with CFFILE. Those are windows o/s extended file properties. Afaik, you'd need some sort of activeX control to access those properties.

[goingflex]

Hi guys

cf_dev2 is correct. I use:

<cfdirectory directory="#presentdirectory#" name="subdirectoryQuery" sort="Name ASC" filter="*" recurse = "no">

Here I look at the type="file" only and have the attributes mentionned above.

How do you gentlemen think I can get the other attributes? I am far from a windows man and activex and stuff is chinese to me.

[BKBK]

Goingflex,
Neither cfdirectory nor cffile will be of any use here. One way to go is Apache POI - HPSF - Java API. I hope the following example works for you, too.

P.S.:
To download the Apache POI application, go to Apache POI mirror closest to you ( http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/release ). Open the bin directory and download the appropriate file for your operating system. For example, I am on Windows, so I downloaded poi-bin-3.0.1-FINAL-20070705.zip.

Extract the file and copy the directory poi-3.0.1-FINAL to {CF_INSTALL}/lib/thirdpartytools. For the usual Coldfusion installation of MX7 on Windows, {CF_INSTALL} is C:/CFusionMX7.

Restart Coldfusion.

[goingflex]

Hi BKBK

thanks for the time spent responding. I appreciate it very much.

I will take a look at it and try it out.

Regards and thanks to all who tried to help.