passing data using cffileupload

If anyone is still interested in this post, I have it working and it is easy as pie.

1) make sure you append ?#urlEncodedFormat(session.urltoken)# and any other variables to the page name in the URL attribute of the tag.  If you don't pass the url token it won't work because the AJAX used to upload the files is done behind the scenes.

2) make sure you have NO HTML COMMENTS in your application.cfc or cfm files. These will murder the JSON returned and you will get the red error in the download box.  If you have any include files in your application scope you need to check them too.  I include a file of UDF's and that is where the HTML comments were hiding.  Rules of thumb, don't use HTML comments anymore at all.  Keep in mind that ANY visible content in your application scope will have the same effect.

3) If you are still having issues, use Firefox or the Charles Proxy app to see what is being returned.  You can also use CFLOG to write the error info into a text file to be examined.

I have this working on CF9, CF10, and 11 and every time it was HTML comments in there somewhere.

actually, Talofer99 couldnt have spelled it out any simpler.

But if you need a FULLL example of how to grab the name, extension and path and insert it into the DB... then here you go:

<cffile action="uploadall"

destination="/full/path/name"

nameconflict="makeunique"

result="uploadedfile"

accept="image/*"

>

<CFSET fullimagename = "#uploadedfile.serverfilename#.#uploadedfile.serverfileext#">

<CFSET fullpath = "#uploadedfile.serverDirectory#">

<cfquery name="gallery_query" datasource="#Application.DSN#" username="#Application.Username#" password="#Application.Password#">

INSERT INTO images (image_path,

image_name)

VALUES('#fullpath#',

'#fullimagename#')

</cfquery>

You could prob do a better job at setting the name, perhaps with a date-time-id.jpg naming scheme to avoid wierd file names.

You cant get any more straight forward than that.

ok... You are missing the BASIC of this TAG ...

IT DOSN'T WORK as CFFORM does:

You don't SUBMIT the uploaded files, they get submited in the BACKGROUND (for lack of any other wya to descirbe this).

So once the FLASH is loaded and u press upload now, the page DOSN'T get SUBMITED, what ever yo uhave in the CFFORM Tha twraps the Tag is IGNORED !!

Basicly the Flash is uplading the files to the server via http request in the background (did u actually tryed it ? di u see how it works ?)

So ....

lets say u did the follwing (which is almust all the u need or can actually place on the UPLAODING PAGE):

<cffileupload
    url = "Save.cfm"/>

The Save.cfm will look like this :

<cffile 
    action = "uploadAll"
    destination = "full pathname"
    accept = "list of MIME types"
    attributes = "file attribute or list"
    mode = "permission"
    nameConflict = "behavior"
    result = "result name">

THIS PAGE IS CALLED ONCE FOR EACH FILE THAT IS UPLOADED ....

so if u choose 4 files .. the flash will submit tem ONE AT A TIME to the UPLOAD.cfm File ....

And the acttion there will be almost teh same as if you had a reguler FORM FILE FIELD with one file ...

IF yo udon;t spcify a result = "resultname" the result structure is CFFILE ....

so if u dump the #cffile# you wil lge the name of the file uploaded and all the rest of the info. (IF itrs still not clear look at the CF reference for cffile uplaod)

BUT sayign all this ... YOU DO NOT SE The result of the SAVE.cfm PAGE .. again because this happesn in the background ...

If now things are STILL not clear ... I think maybe I'm nto the one to explain it ... and you migth consider takeing a course

HAve fun

When you say "Fail" what do you mean ?

I had problems with it the first time I tryed it.

What I did for debuging is to place a CFDUMP of the FORM inside a CFMAIL that was sent to me ...

this way I was sure that the form is working.

then I manged to get he files uplaoded ...

and if u get the file uploaded there is no problem to store the info on that page, as long as u pas the info for it.

for example if the file that is uploaded need to be saved for product ID#, pass that in the URL and u can do the database part on the fileuplaoding page.

If you post the code yo udo have it might be easier to help you out.

when using cffileupload (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec18238-7fd0.html) - which is the tag that creates the file uplaoder, have this attribute : URL

Basicly the file are SUBMITED/UPLOADED one at a time to that page (the one specified in the url)

so this page proccess the saveing of the uploaded image and you can use it to save things into a database.

not that if you use session in your application, add this :?#urlEncodedFormat(session.urltoken)# ? to your url in order to keep the session in the proccessing page.

here is the proccessing page tag

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7388.html

hope this helps out