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June 25, 2008
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Upload issues

  • June 25, 2008
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Okay this is driving me nuts. I haven't had to do file uploads (using cffile) in several years that I have forgotten how I accomplished this before.

Currently I have a form in a subfolder called "fails" which is directly under my root (wwwroot/fails). All I want to do is send any files uploaded to a subfolder called "data" (wwwroot/fails/data). I know I need to set the path in the destination field, but I do not want to hard code the actual path (c:\cfusion8\...). I remember there being a variable that would show me the relative path of a file, but I forgot was that was called (I thought it was a CGI variable but none of them worked).

Any help will be appreciated.
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    Correct answer Newsgroup_User
    Not variables -- functions.

    This now varies by CF version. For the latest and greatest CF 8 I now
    use this (Just wrote this a minute ago).

    #getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath())#

    Check the system functions in your documentation if you have an older CF
    server.

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    Newsgroup_UserCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    June 25, 2008
    Not variables -- functions.

    This now varies by CF version. For the latest and greatest CF 8 I now
    use this (Just wrote this a minute ago).

    #getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath())#

    Check the system functions in your documentation if you have an older CF
    server.

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    spacehogAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 25, 2008
    Just found it in my CFWACK book. Similar to what Ian said. Here is another slight variation:

    #getDirectoryFromPath(ExpandPath("*.*"))#
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