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Contact form with ability up add CV / resume

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
December 14, 2017
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Hi

I am building a website and the client would like a form on the site were people can send him a CV / resume.

I have built a basic form in Coldfusion, but this asks for name, email message etc. and sends this information as an email.

How do I create a extra bit that adds a pdf file to the email? How does this work?

Any simple/clear answers would be great

Many thanks

Mark

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waudsAuthor

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Hi

Well I think it is IIS version 8.5

Not sure what web server logos are, or where they would be?

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Dave Watts

Community Expert

Web server logs contain one line for every HTTP/HTTPS request. You can find the logs under C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\{webserverid} by default. You can find which ID belongs to which webserver in the IIS Management Console.

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software

Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC

WolfShade

Legend

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I don't fully understand.

erm… so C:\ I know a have one of them on my computer, though I'm on a mac and it doesn't show the drive letters, but wouldn't it go to the server were my website is live?

And I don't even know where to look for the IIS management console!!!

Arrhhh!

Thanks
Mark

If you were on a Windows machine, you'd have a C:\ drive; but as you stated, you are using a Mac. But this all assumes that you are using one computer as a WebServer, ColdFusion Server, and development server; or, at least are using your local, private network for development.

Yes, the logs are located on the WebServer, or as you put it "the server where [your] website is live". That system will have the Management Console (if using IIS), or the Apache-equivalent if using Apache as the web server. If that system is within a hosting service, then you can contact Tech Support and ask them to help with getting access to the logs.

V/r,

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nic_tunney

Inspiring

I'll add to the answer above (which shows how to attach the file to an email using <cfmailparam file="#form.whateverFileField#"/>). If you need a local copy of the file for posterity, or want to do some basic checks to make sure you aren't mailing .exe files or whatnot, after your form post (be sure to set the encoding to "multipart/form-data") you can use <cffile/> to process the file:

ColdFusion Help | cffile action = "upload"

And based on results can provide error messages back to the user (such as PDF or size restrictions).

-Nic

WolfShade

Legend

Yep, and if keeping hard drive space on the server is more important (I know some hosting services don't give that much space to client projects), you can use CFFILE action="READBINARY" to store the file in a variable, then use the variable as the content of the CFMAILPARAM. In this case, the file is only saved to the TEMP directory, then deleted after the variable contains the binary.

HTH,

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WolfShade

Legend

Oh, and one more thing. If you can be sure that the users are all going to be using the latest browsers (no more than one or two versions behind current), you can use JavaScript file to check for file size, mimetype, etc., before the file is uploaded. If you have the form set to have JavaScript submit the form, no one will be able to upload malicious files to your application/site. Or, at least, it would become difficult to.

V/r,

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WolfShade

Legend

Assuming that you are using CFMAIL to send the information, the resume would be attached using CFMAILPARAM inside the CFMAIL.

HTH,

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