Sams Teach Yourself ColdFusion® in 21 Days

Day 18. Working with Files and Directories

As a ColdFusion developer, you ought to do a little dance right here and now because you're about to learn how the development application you've chosen includes full support for uploading, managing, and even creating files from a Web browser. Using ColdFusion, you can design templates that enable you and your users to send images, word processor documents, database files, spreadsheets, programs, or any other type of file to a remote server. The best part is that any of these tasks can be done via a simple Web interface, 2using nothing but a browser. In today's lesson, you'll learn

• How ColdFusion works with files and directories

• Uploading files with <CFFILE>

• Managing and creating files with <CFFILE>

• Using ...