What is correct notation for complex variables

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I need to manipulate files after upload. They are all uploaded in 1 directory by a flash component and then i need to rename them and move them to the directory that corresponds with choosen categories and subcategories. Now I am having problems with finding out how to get my variables correctly

It is about the variable thisFiletoMove1, it should correspond with the destination file in the cffile tag

<cfif FileExists('#request.site.imgupload#\max_#MultiPowUploadFileName_0#')>
  <cffile action="rename"
    source="#request.site.imgupload#\max_#MultiPowUploadFileName_0#"
    destination="#request.site.imgupload#\#request.currentimgid#_max.jpg">
    <cfset thisFiletoMove1 = #request.currentimgid#_max.jpg />
</cfif>

<cfset thisFiletoMove1 = #request.currentimgid#_max.jpg /> is giving an error Invalid CFML construct found, ColdFusion was looking at the following text:

_max.jpg

Then I try

<cfset thisFiletoMove1 = #request.currentimgid & "_max.jpg" /> and I get

The source C:\websites\beta.antiek.net\demo\galleries\test\thisFiletoMove1 specified in the cffile tag is invalid

So now I am wondering, what is the correct way to do this??

Bianca

[Dan_Bracuk]

Array notation is your friend.

ThisFileToMove = request[currentimgid & "_max.jpg"]

[BKBK]

Dan Bracuk wrote:

Array notation is your friend.

ThisFileToMove = request[currentimgid & "_max.jpg"]

Right in spirit of course. The request variable is apparently currentimgid, and so this should have read

ThisFileToMove = request[currentimgid] & "_img.jpg"

However, I think Bianca's problem occurs else where.

[BKBK · Accepted solution]

bianca_homedev wrote:

I need to manipulate files after upload. They are all uploaded in 1 directory by a flash component and then i need to rename them and move them to the directory that corresponds with choosen categories and subcategories. Now I am having problems with finding out how to get my variables correctly

It is about the variable thisFiletoMove1, it should correspond with the destination file in the cffile tag

<cfif FileExists('#request.site.imgupload#\max_#MultiPowUploadFileName_0#') >
  <cffile action="rename"
    source="#request.site.imgupload#\max_#MultiPowUploadFileName_0#"
    destination="#request.site.imgupload#\#request.currentimgid#_max.jpg" >
    <cfset thisFiletoMove1 = #request.currentimgid#_max.jpg />
</cfif>

<cfset thisFiletoMove1 = #request.currentimgid#_max.jpg /> is giving an error Invalid CFML construct found, ColdFusion was looking at the following text:

_max.jpg

Then I try

<cfset thisFiletoMove1 = #request.currentimgid & "_max.jpg" /> and I get

The source C:\websites\beta.antiek.net\demo\galleries\test\thisFiletoMove1 specified in the cffile tag is invalid

So now I am wondering, what is the correct way to do this??

These are both wrong:

<cfset thisFiletoMove1 = #request.currentimgid#_max.jpg />
<cfset thisFiletoMove1 = #request.currentimgid & "_max.jpg" />

You were almost there. What you intended saying was probably

<cfset thisFiletoMove1 = "#request.currentimgid#_max.jpg" />

<cfset thisFiletoMove1 = #request.currentimgid# & "_max.jpg" />

However, even better are
<cfset thisFiletoMove1 = request.currentimgid & "_max.jpg" />
<cfset thisFiletoMove1 = request[currentimgid] & "_max.jpg" />