CFFILE and Site Root Path

[jfmwebdesign]

I need to make a input field that will allow me to browse to a file and select the file and 'site root path' and save that to be used as a link.

I would like to store the value as /dirMain/subDir/file.cfm
I am lost ...Any Ideas...

[BKBK]

Input field to browse to file, select file and webroot path and save that as link? I don't understand what that means. Does anyone, well, except Oldshoe?

[jfmwebdesign]

Sorry for the confusion.
I need to be able to show the path of any given file based off the root of the site [the base index.cfm] so instead of getting the full Expandpath(), I need to eliminate the C:websites/HostDirectory/Site/

THANKS

Jon

[BKBK]

To get that relative path value on each page itself, you could just remove C:\websites\HostDirectory\Site\ from the absolute path, thus

<cfset relpath=ReplaceNoCase(ExpandPath( "myPage1.cfm"),"C:\websites\HostDirectory\Site\","")>

However, if you want code for myPage1.cfm that will find the relative path of any given arbitrary file, myPage2.cfm, then you could implement a search. The reason is, such a file may have an arbitrary directory structure, C:\websites\HostDirectory\Site\..\dir1\dir2\..\myPage2.cfm. I also wonder whether one could do it with code that searches using cfdirectory. I'm looking into it.

[BKBK]

Just type in a value for the basepath (for example, C:\websites\HostDirectory\Site) and for the file (for example, testPage.cfm). Suppose the file's path is

C:\websites\HostDirectory\Site\subsite\myDir\files\new\testPage.cfm

Then the code's result will be:

filepath: C:\websites\HostDirectory\Site\subsite\myDir\files\new\testPage.cfm
filepath above basepath: \subsite\myDir\files\new\testPage.cfm

[jfmwebdesign]

Thank you, I will give it a shot...

[BKBK]

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