attach file in textarea

[Guest_imported]

Hello e.b.

Does anybody know if there's a way to attach the content of a textfile into a <textarea> , using the small browsing window you get when you use <input type=&quot;file&quot;>, so that it can be editted in this textarea an be sent to the next page where a cfmail action will do the rest?

Thanks!!!

 

[iqof188]

Wow, what are you trying to do? Are you sure you are not making things too complicated for both yourself and your poor CF- and webserver ;-) ?
Let me get this straight: you want to be able to select a textfile from your local machine with input type=file, have the content of that file to be shown within a textarea, and then send it to the next page. Well, I won't judge this approach, but this should be something like it:

1. Make a form with input type=file and send it to a page called save.cfm or something. make sure the enctype of the form is multipart/form-data.
2. In save.cfm, upload the file to your webserver:
<cffile action=&quot;UPLOAD&quot; filefield=&quot;#FileFromForm&quot; destination=&quot;C:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot&quot;>

3. Go to another page called show.cfm, and read the file:
<cffile action=&quot;READ&quot; file=&quot;C:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot\somename.txt&quot;

variable=&quot;content&quot;>

4. Show the file that was read in ten textarea:

<textarea name=&quot;MyContent&quot; cols=&quot;80&quot; rows=&quot;10&quot;><cfoutput>#content#</cfoutput></textarea>

There you go, hope this helps...


<webguru>iqof188</webguru>

 

[Guest_imported]

It actually did help. Thanx a lot. That &quot;cffile action = read&quot; thing was basicly what i was looking for. I agree though, that it is a bit too complicated. I'll try something else first. tnx anyway