Note: This blog post is from 2006. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.

As such, I'll point out that I'm speaking 3 times regarding 2 topics at CFUnited. That will be a great time to know you can find me, if you want to say hello. :-) Both talks are on web services, one beginner and one intermediate, and the beginner has been chosen by popular demand to be repeated on Saturday.

I'll welcome your feedback as well if you attend. Last year I was voted one of the top speakers, along with Glenda Vigoreaux and, I believe, someone else--I can't recall. We're supposed to get some form of recognition at this year's event, perhaps a special hotel room or something, so that will be fun. They think of such clever things, that Michael and Liz. :-)

I should note I'm also speaking at the CFUG Manager's event the day before, and I really look forward to saying hello to other CFUG Managers (I'm now presiding over the team who run the Atlanta CFUG).

Note: This blog post is from 2006. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.

Have you ever assumed that for a file to be uploaded to CF, in a post to a CFM page, that that page needs a CFFILE Action="upload" in order to "receive" the file? It does NOT. Now, I'm being a bit technical here, but to be clear, the uploaded file will be "received" by CF, if posted to ANY CFM page whether that tag is there or not to "receive it". The point is that this uploaded file will be put in a temp directory, with a temp file name and extension, at least until the end of the request.

What the CFFILE Action="upload" does is just move the uploaded file from a temp directory to your named DESTINATION (as well as validate its type, report the file name, protect against or allow overwrites, and more, if you use the attributes on the tag for those features).

And if you do NOT process it, then that temp file will be removed at the end of the request (unless perhaps the request terminates unexpectedly).

Need proof? Want to learn more? Read on.

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