cfzip and cfloop won't work together

[jallred]

I have a list of pdfs I want to zip up. In the first example below I try to loop over the list and put them into cfzipparams within one cfzip tag. This results in a zip file with only one pdf (the last one). In the second example I loop over the list and call the cfzip tag once for every pdf, appending each pdf separately onto the zip file. So, the second example works, but it seems to me that the first example would be more efficient if it worked. Why doesn't it work?

<cfset fileList = "somefile.pdf|anotherfile.pdf|yetanotherfile.pdf" />

The following will only add the very last pdf to the zip (yetanotherfile.pdf in my example).
<cfzip action="zip" file="#samplepath#.zip" overwrite="yes">
<cfloop index="filepath" list="#fileList#" delimiters="|">
<cfzipparam source="#filepath#">
</cfloop>
</cfzip>

The following will add all three pdfs to the zip file.
<cfloop index="filepath" list="#fileList#" delimiters="|">
<cfzip action="zip" file="#samplepath#.zip" overwrite="no">
<cfzipparam source="#filepath#">
</cfzip>
</cfloop>

[SafariTECH]

Your first example is only ever adding the current file definition, not adding it to a list.

It would be better to loop over the files creating a list of files to add and then run the CFZIP function

[jallred]

Are you saying the cfzipparam tag can take a list of files like this:

<cfset fileList = "somefile.pdf,anotherfile.pdf,yetanotherfile.pdf" />

<cfzip action="zip" file="#samplepath#.zip" overwrite="yes">
<cfzipparam source="#fileList #">
</cfzip>

If so, that's perfect.