Ah, that might be it. I did already have the enctype thing done (got that from the online tutorials I found).
If I change to CFFORM, do all of the fields have to change to CFINPUT or can they stay as plain INPUT? Cheers, Seona. Quoting Peter Tilbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Now I think you MUST use CFFORM and not the standard FORM tag to allow file > upload. I think... > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter > Tilbrook > Sent: Saturday, 10 July 2004 1:02 PM > To: CFAussie Mailing List > Subject: [cfaussie] RE: <cffile> doesn't seem to work for me > > Your CFFORM tag must include this attribute: > > enctype="multipart/form-data" > > That should do the trick. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Seona > Bellamy > Sent: Saturday, 10 July 2004 11:05 AM > To: CFAussie Mailing List > Subject: [cfaussie] <cffile> doesn't seem to work for me > > Hi guys, > > I'm having a bit of a problem with <cffile>. I've checked that my webhost > allows its use (I actually checked that before I signed up with them) and > the problem I have seems to be one of technicality rather than possibility. > > I have a form which contains, amongst other things, the following field: > > <label for="PhotoThumb">Thumbnail Photo</label> <input name="PhotoThumb" > type="file"> > > > When the form is submitted, it calls this code: > <cfif #FORM.PhotoThumb# NEQ ""> > <cffile action="upload" filefield="PhotoThumb" > destination="C:\inetpub\swanstreet\Thumbs\" nameconflict="overwrite" > accept="image/gif, image/jpg"> > </cfif> > > > When it tries to run that code, I get the following error: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > Error Occurred While Processing Request > Error Diagnostic Information > Error in CFFILE tag > > The form field specified in the CFFILE tag (PHOTOTHUMB) does not contain an > uploaded file. Please be sure that you have specified the correct form > field > name. > > The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of > (CFFILE), occupying document position (2:2) to (2:147). > > The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of > (CFRETHROW), occupying document position (246:11) to (246:21). > > Date/Time: 07/09/04 17:56:38 > Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Remote Address: > 203.217.38.43 HTTP Referrer: > http://216.119.123.23/index.cfm?fuseaction=admin.manageProducts > Query String: fuseaction=admin.addProduct > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > > Can anyone tell me why? More importantly, can anyone tell me how to fix it? > > I've gone searching via Google and found a bunch of handy hints, all of > which I've tried and none of which seem to be making a blin dbit of > difference. > > Hopefully some of you are still around over the weekend. I'd really like to > crack this one, since the deadline is looming for this part of the project > and I'm at my wit's end (not that it's far to go...). > > Cheers, > > Seona. > > --- > You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To > unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > > > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To > unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > > > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > > --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
