this worked great! Thanks a million! Brian Yager President - North AL Cold Fusion Users Group http://www.nacfug.com Sr. Systems Analyst Sverdrup/CIC [EMAIL PROTECTED] (256) 842-8342
-----Original Message----- From: Robert Polickoski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 4:15 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: QUestion about Input File and CFFILE Brian, Here is the code I am using: <script language="JavaScript"> function parseFileName(theFile) { var start = -1; while (theFile.value.indexOf("\\", start + 1) != -1) { start = theFile.value.indexOf("\\", start + 1); } FileUpload.action = FileUpload.action + theFile.value.substring(start+1, theFile.value.length); } </script> </head> <body> <form id="FileUpload" name="FileUpload" title="Form to upload a file from the user to the server" action="FileUpload.cfm?FileName=" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" onsubmit="validateForm(this)"> <label id="UploadFileLabel" title="Lebel for UploadFile Input" for="UploadFile"> Select your file </label> <input id="UploadFile" name="UploadFile" title="File to be uploaded" type="file" onchange="parseFileName(this)"> <br> <button id="UploadButton" name="UploadButton" title="Button to start the Upload" type="submit"> Upload </button> </form> Then in fileupload.cfm I have: <cfset uploadPath = Left(PATH_TRANSLATED, Find("FileUpload.cfm", PATH_TRANSLATED)-1) & "UploadFiles\"> <cffile action="upload" destination="#uploadPath#" filefield="UploadFile" nameconflict="makeunique" attributes="readonly"> It is working for me. I hope this helps. Take care, Robert ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Yager, Brian T Contractor/Sverdrup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:11:09 -0500 >I am trying to upload a file using CFFILE. I can get it to wrok just fine. But >what I can't do is get the name of the file BEFORE I use CFFILE. When I try to >output the name of the file input box, I get some weird name with an extension >of .tmp. Can anyone help me with what I need please? > >Thanks, > >Brian Yager >President - North AL Cold Fusion Users Group >http://www.nacfug.com >Sr. Systems Analyst >Sverdrup/CIC >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >(256) 842-8342 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.

