Question

CFTree to show CFDirectory structure

Asked by: theSpaceCow

Experts,

I need a CFTree control to show the contents of a folder on the webserver. The structure of this directory is known and is not supposed to change: the root directory will contain no files itself, but will have exactly 1 level of subdirectories, which will have the pertinent files. Is there a way to do this with a single CFDirectory tag, which can be "group by"ed and displayed with a single CFTreeItem tag?

Even if the solution is hardcoded (I'd actually prefer if it can be dynamically recursive to include any number of subdirectory levels, but I'm not picky), I need a CFDirectory query (or series of queries) that I can display with a CFTree. CFTree must be really easy, because there seems to be no need for live, working examples out there. I couldn't find any, at least. Can you retroactively go back and assign a child node to an existing node with the "parent" property? And how does one make the plus-signs appear next to unexpanded folders, along with the dotted lines to the child folders?

In short, I know nothing about CFDirectory, CFTree, or CFFile. I haven't had much time to work on this, so I'd really appreciate your help on this.
Thanks!
RJ

'First Attempt' Source Code:

<cfset thePath = "C:\WebData\Reports">
<cfdirectory name="WebData" action="List" directory="#thePath#" sort="Name ASC">

<cfloop query="WebData"> 
<cfdirectory name="#WebData.Name#" action="List" directory="#thePath#\#WebData.Name#">
</cfloop>

<cfform action="getFile_go.cfm" method="POST"> 
<cftree name="treeWebData" appendkey="no">
<cftreeitem value="Name" query="WebData" queryasroot="no" img="folder,document"
imgopen="folder,document" parent="WebData" expand="no">
<cfloop query="WebData"> 
<cftreeitem value="Name" query="#WebData.Name#" parent="#WebData.Name#"
expand="yes">
</cfloop> 
</cftree>
</cfform>

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Asked On: 2004-06-30 at 07:49:53ID21043343
Tags: cftree
,; cfdirectory
Topic: ColdFusion Application Server
Participating Experts: 2
Points: 500
Comments: 12

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Answers

by: pinaldavePosted on 2004-06-30 at 07:57:48ID: 11436534

Hi theSpaceCow,

there is custom tag available on this site.
http://www.cfcustomtags.com/subcategories.cfm?parentid=200
I have used the paid one but the free one is also there.

Regards,
---Pinal

by: Jester_48Posted on 2004-06-30 at 09:13:17ID: 11437541

here is one i did

save the file as CF_dirRecursive.cfm

call it from any cfm page as

<CF_dirRecursive dirPath= "#expandPath('.')#" spacer="1">

and it will recursively generate a tree (no images nor fancy text that i leave up to you)

<cfif isDefined('attributes.dirPath')>
      <cftry>
            <cfset path=#expandPath(#attributes.dirPath#)#>
      <cfcatch>
            <cfset path=#attributes.dirPath#>
      </cfcatch>
      </cftry>
<cfelse>
      <cfset path=#expandPath(".")#>
</cfif>
<cfif not isdefined('attributes.spacer')>
      <cfset locSpacer = 1>
<cfelse>
      <cfset locSpacer = #attributes.spacer# + 1>
</cfif>
<cfset strInset=' '>
<cfloop index="idx" from="1" to="#locSpacer#">
      <cfset strInset = #strInset# & '      '>
</cfloop>

<cfdirectory action="list" directory="#path#" name="fileList" sort="type,name">
<cfloop query="fileList">
<cfoutput>
<cfif #type# is "dir" and #name# neq "." and #name# neq "..">
#strInset#-#Name#<br>

<CF_dirRecursive dirPath= "#path#\#name#" spacer="#locSpacer#">
<cfelseif #type# eq "file">
#strInset#-#Name# - #size#<br>

</cfif>
</cfoutput>
</cfloop>

by: Jester_48Posted on 2004-06-30 at 09:20:34ID: 11437630

and you might find this interesting

directory browser (only part of it) the supporting edit, delete and rename are not included adapted it from some code i found on teh net, i think it was http://www.easycfm.com

you need to include an Application.cfm in the same directory with

<cfset rootPath =#expandPath('.')#>

<cfif isDefined("SESSION.Auth.UserID") and isDefined("SESSION.Auth.AccessLevel")>                  
<cfif #SESSION.Auth.AccessLevel# GE 100>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Site Manager - File List</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />

<style type="text/css">
body, td { font-family:verdana; font-size:11px; }
.dir:hover,a { color:#0000ff; text-decoration:none; }
.dir, a:hover { color:#ff0000; text-decoration:underline; }
</style>
</head>

<body>

<cfif isDefined('url.pth')>
      <cfset path=#url.pth#>
      <cfif Find('\..',#path#)>
            <cfloop condition="Find('\..',#path#)">
                  <cfset path=left(path,Find('\..',#path#))>
            </cfloop>
      </cfif>
      <cfif right(path,1) eq '\'>
            <cfset path=left('#path#',len('#path#')-1)>
      </cfif>
<cfelse>
      <cfset path=#rootPath#>
</cfif>

<cfif not findNoCase(rootPath,#getDirectoryFromPath(path)#,1)>
<cfset path=#rootPath#>
</cfif>

<cfdirectory action="list" directory="#path#" name="fileList" sort="type,name">
<cfoutput>


<table style="width:680px; border:1px ##000000 solid;" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" align="center">
<tr style="background-color:##cccccc;">
<td style="font-weight:bold;">Name  </td>
            <td style="font-weight:bold;">Type  </td>
<td style="font-weight:bold; text-align:right;">File Size  </td>
<td style="font-weight:bold;">Last Modified  </td>
<td style="font-weight:bold; text-align:center;" colspan="3">Action  </td>
</tr>
<cfloop query="fileList">

<tr style="background-color:<cfif currentRow MOD 2>##ffffff<cfelse>##ececec</cfif>;">
<cfif type eq "dir">
                  <cfif name eq "..">
                        <cfif findNoCase(rootPath,#getDirectoryFromPath(path)#,1)>
                        <td><a href="siteManager.cfm?pth=#getDirectoryFromPath(path)#" class="dir">..</a></td>
                        <cfelse>
                        <td><a href="siteManager.cfm?pth=#rootPath#" class="dir">..</a></td>
                        </cfif>
                  <cfelseif name eq ".">
                        <td>.</td>
                  <cfelse>
                        <td><a href="siteManager.cfm?pth=#path#\#name#" class="dir">#name#</a></td>
                  </cfif>
            <td>#type#</td>
<td style="text-align:right;">#int(evaluate(size/1024))# KB  </td>
<td>#dateFormat(dateLastModified, 'mm/dd/yyyy')# #timeFormat(dateLastModified, 'h:mm tt')#  </td>
            <td style="text-align:center;">  <cfif name neq "." and name neq ".."><a href="siteManagerFolderRename.cfm?dirName=#URLEncodedFormat(name)#&pth=#path#" onclick="return confirm('Are You Sure You Wish to Rename This Directory?\nRenaming of Directories May Adversely Effect Links and Bookmarks.');" class="dir">rename</a></cfif>  </td>
<td style="text-align:center;">  <cfif name neq "." and name neq ".."><a href="siteManagerFolderDelete.cfm?dirName=#URLEncodedFormat(name)#&pth=#path#" onclick="return confirm('Are You Sure You Wish to Delete This Directory?');" class="dir">delete</a></cfif></td>
           <cfif #session.Auth.userid# eq 1246082 and 1 eq 0><td style="text-align:center;">  <cfif name neq "." and name neq ".."><a href="siteManagerFolderDeleteAll.cfm?dirName=#URLEncodedFormat(name)#&pth=#path#" onclick="return (confirm('Are You Sure You Wish to Delete This Directory and ALL Sub-directories and Files?') ? confirm('Please confirm this action!\nNote this will delete all files and sub directories, including the #name# directory!\nThis cannot be undone!'): false )" class="dir">delete all</a></cfif>  </td>
            <cfelse>
            <td style="text-align:center;">    </td>
            </cfif>

            <cfelse>
            <cfif reFindNoCase(".txt$|.cfm$|.cfml$|.htm$|.html$|.js$|.css$", name)>
            <td><a href="siteManagerFileEdit.cfm?file=#URLEncodedFormat(name)#&pth=#path#">#name#</a></td>
            <cfelse>
            <td>#name#</td>
            </cfif>
            <td>#type#</td>
<td style="text-align:right;">#int(evaluate(size/1024))# KB  </td>
<td>#dateFormat(dateLastModified, 'mm/dd/yyyy')# #timeFormat(dateLastModified, 'h:mm tt')#  </td>
<td style="text-align:center;">  <a href="siteManagerFileRename.cfm?file=#URLEncodedFormat(name)#&pth=#path#" onclick="return confirm('Are You Sure You Wish to Rename This File?\nRenaming of files can adversely effect links and bookmarks.\n');">rename</a>  </td>
           <td style="text-align:center;">  <a href="siteManagerFileDelete.cfm?file=#URLEncodedFormat(name)#&pth=#path#" onclick="return confirm('Are You Sure You Wish to Delete This File?');">delete</a>  </td>
           <cfif reFindNoCase(".txt$|.cfm$|.cfml$|.htm$|.html$|.js$|.css$", name)>
            <td style="text-align:center;">  <a href="siteManagerFileEdit.cfm?file=#URLEncodedFormat(name)#&pth=#path#">edit</a>  </td>
            <cfelse>
            <td></td>
            </cfif>
            </cfif>
             </tr>
</cfloop>
      <tr>
      </table>
      <table style="width:680px; border:1px ##000000 solid;" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" align="center">
      <td><a href="siteManagerFileAdd.cfm?pth=#path#">Create a new file</a></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
      <td><a href="siteManagerFolderAdd.cfm?pth=#path#">Create a new folder</a></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
      </tr>
</table>
<table style="width:680px; border:1px ##000000 solid;" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" align="center">
<form name="frmFileUpload" action="siteManagerFileUploadAction.cfm" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" onSubmit="return (txtFile.value.replace(/^\s*/, '').replace(/\s*$/, '').length ? true : false)">
<td>upload a file <input type="file" name="txtFile" onChange="">
      <input type="submit" name="butSubmit" value="Submit"></td>
      <td><input type="hidden" name="txtFileSavePath" value="#path#"></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
      </tr>
</form>
</table>
<table style="width:680px; border:1px ##000000 solid;" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" align="center">
      <tr>
      <td align="center"><input type="button" name="butTracker" value="Toolbox Home" onClick="window.location='#RELLOCPATH#start.cfm';this.disabled=true;" style="background:00008b;color:white;border-color:white;width:200;"><br></td>
      </tr>
</table>
</cfoutput>
<br />

</body>
</html>
<cfelse>
<cflocation url="levelError.cfm">

</cfif>
<cfelse>
<cflocation url="error.cfm">

</cfif>

by: Jester_48Posted on 2004-06-30 at 09:24:21ID: 11437663

adjustment in teh browser, you need to login to use it on our site so here it ias without teh login

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Site Manager - File List</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />

<style type="text/css">
body, td { font-family:verdana; font-size:11px; }
.dir:hover,a { color:#0000ff; text-decoration:none; }
.dir, a:hover { color:#ff0000; text-decoration:underline; }
</style>
</head>

<body>

<cfif isDefined('url.pth')>
      <cfset path=#url.pth#>
      <cfif Find('\..',#path#)>
            <cfloop condition="Find('\..',#path#)">
                  <cfset path=left(path,Find('\..',#path#))>
            </cfloop>
      </cfif>
      <cfif right(path,1) eq '\'>
            <cfset path=left('#path#',len('#path#')-1)>
      </cfif>
<cfelse>
      <cfset path=#rootPath#>
</cfif>

<cfif not findNoCase(rootPath,#getDirectoryFromPath(path)#,1)>
<cfset path=#rootPath#>
</cfif>

<cfdirectory action="list" directory="#path#" name="fileList" sort="type,name">
<cfoutput>


<table style="width:680px; border:1px ##000000 solid;" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" align="center">
<tr style="background-color:##cccccc;">
<td style="font-weight:bold;">Name  </td>
            <td style="font-weight:bold;">Type  </td>
<td style="font-weight:bold; text-align:right;">File Size  </td>
<td style="font-weight:bold;">Last Modified  </td>
<td style="font-weight:bold; text-align:center;" colspan="3">Action  </td>
</tr>
<cfloop query="fileList">

<tr style="background-color:<cfif currentRow MOD 2>##ffffff<cfelse>##ececec</cfif>;">
<cfif type eq "dir">
                  <cfif name eq "..">
                        <cfif findNoCase(rootPath,#getDirectoryFromPath(path)#,1)>
                        <td><a href="siteManager.cfm?pth=#getDirectoryFromPath(path)#" class="dir">..</a></td>
                        <cfelse>
                        <td><a href="siteManager.cfm?pth=#rootPath#" class="dir">..</a></td>
                        </cfif>
                  <cfelseif name eq ".">
                        <td>.</td>
                  <cfelse>
                        <td><a href="siteManager.cfm?pth=#path#\#name#" class="dir">#name#</a></td>
                  </cfif>
            <td>#type#</td>
<td style="text-align:right;">#int(evaluate(size/1024))# KB  </td>
<td>#dateFormat(dateLastModified, 'mm/dd/yyyy')# #timeFormat(dateLastModified, 'h:mm tt')#  </td>
            <td style="text-align:center;">  <cfif name neq "." and name neq ".."><a href="siteManagerFolderRename.cfm?dirName=#URLEncodedFormat(name)#&pth=#path#" onclick="return confirm('Are You Sure You Wish to Rename This Directory?\nRenaming of Directories May Adversely Effect Links and Bookmarks.');" class="dir">rename</a></cfif>  </td>
<td style="text-align:center;">  <cfif name neq "." and name neq ".."><a href="siteManagerFolderDelete.cfm?dirName=#URLEncodedFormat(name)#&pth=#path#" onclick="return confirm('Are You Sure You Wish to Delete This Directory?');" class="dir">delete</a></cfif></td>
           <cfif #session.Auth.userid# eq 1246082 and 1 eq 0><td style="text-align:center;">  <cfif name neq "." and name neq ".."><a href="siteManagerFolderDeleteAll.cfm?dirName=#URLEncodedFormat(name)#&pth=#path#" onclick="return (confirm('Are You Sure You Wish to Delete This Directory and ALL Sub-directories and Files?') ? confirm('Please confirm this action!\nNote this will delete all files and sub directories, including the #name# directory!\nThis cannot be undone!'): false )" class="dir">delete all</a></cfif>  </td>
            <cfelse>
            <td style="text-align:center;">    </td>
            </cfif>

            <cfelse>
            <cfif reFindNoCase(".txt$|.cfm$|.cfml$|.htm$|.html$|.js$|.css$", name)>
            <td><a href="siteManagerFileEdit.cfm?file=#URLEncodedFormat(name)#&pth=#path#">#name#</a></td>
            <cfelse>
            <td>#name#</td>
            </cfif>
            <td>#type#</td>
<td style="text-align:right;">#int(evaluate(size/1024))# KB  </td>
<td>#dateFormat(dateLastModified, 'mm/dd/yyyy')# #timeFormat(dateLastModified, 'h:mm tt')#  </td>
<td style="text-align:center;">  <a href="siteManagerFileRename.cfm?file=#URLEncodedFormat(name)#&pth=#path#" onclick="return confirm('Are You Sure You Wish to Rename This File?\nRenaming of files can adversely effect links and bookmarks.\n');">rename</a>  </td>
           <td style="text-align:center;">  <a href="siteManagerFileDelete.cfm?file=#URLEncodedFormat(name)#&pth=#path#" onclick="return confirm('Are You Sure You Wish to Delete This File?');">delete</a>  </td>
           <cfif reFindNoCase(".txt$|.cfm$|.cfml$|.htm$|.html$|.js$|.css$", name)>
            <td style="text-align:center;">  <a href="siteManagerFileEdit.cfm?file=#URLEncodedFormat(name)#&pth=#path#">edit</a>  </td>
            <cfelse>
            <td></td>
            </cfif>
            </cfif>
             </tr>
</cfloop>
      <tr>
      </table>
      <table style="width:680px; border:1px ##000000 solid;" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" align="center">
      <td><a href="siteManagerFileAdd.cfm?pth=#path#">Create a new file</a></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
      <td><a href="siteManagerFolderAdd.cfm?pth=#path#">Create a new folder</a></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
      </tr>
</table>
<table style="width:680px; border:1px ##000000 solid;" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" align="center">
<form name="frmFileUpload" action="siteManagerFileUploadAction.cfm" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" onSubmit="return (txtFile.value.replace(/^\s*/, '').replace(/\s*$/, '').length ? true : false)">
<td>upload a file <input type="file" name="txtFile" onChange="">
      <input type="submit" name="butSubmit" value="Submit"></td>
      <td><input type="hidden" name="txtFileSavePath" value="#path#"></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
      </tr>
</form>
</table>
<table style="width:680px; border:1px ##000000 solid;" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" align="center">
      <tr>
      <td align="center"><input type="button" name="butTracker" value="Toolbox Home" onClick="window.location='#RELLOCPATH#start.cfm';this.disabled=true;" style="background:00008b;color:white;border-color:white;width:200;"><br></td>
      </tr>
</table>
</cfoutput>
<br />

</body>
</html>

by: Jester_48Posted on 2004-06-30 at 09:27:04ID: 11437684

also change this

<cfif #session.Auth.userid# eq 1246082 and 1 eq 0><td style="text-align:center;">  <cfif name neq "." and name neq ".."><a href="siteManagerFolderDeleteAll.cfm?dirName=#URLEncodedFormat(name)#&pth=#path#" onclick="return (confirm('Are You Sure You Wish to Delete This Directory and ALL Sub-directories and Files?') ? confirm('Please confirm this action!\nNote this will delete all files and sub directories, including the #name# directory!\nThis cannot be undone!'): false )" class="dir">delete all</a></cfif>  </td>
<cfelse>
<td style="text-align:center;">    </td>
</cfif>

to this

<td style="text-align:center;">  <cfif name neq "." and name neq ".."><a href="siteManagerFolderDeleteAll.cfm?dirName=#URLEncodedFormat(name)#&pth=#path#" onclick="return (confirm('Are You Sure You Wish to Delete This Directory and ALL Sub-directories and Files?') ? confirm('Please confirm this action!\nNote this will delete all files and sub directories, including the #name# directory!\nThis cannot be undone!'): false )" class="dir">delete all</a></cfif>  </td>

only one person is allowed access to the recursive delete

by: pinaldavePosted on 2004-06-30 at 09:41:00ID: 11437842

Hi Jester_48,
GREAT !!!

Regards,
---Pinal

by: Jester_48Posted on 2004-06-30 at 10:27:00ID: 11438332

thanks...

by: theSpaceCowPosted on 2004-06-30 at 11:43:07ID: 11439134

Jester,

That's a pretty slick bit of code you have there. I'm going to make the necessary changes, and I'll let you know if I run into any problems with it.

Thanks!
RJ

by: Jester_48Posted on 2004-06-30 at 12:04:04ID: 11439372

np...
it's a holiday here tomorrow so i might not get back to this until friday, but no worries just post any q's, remarks, i will follow up.

by: theSpaceCowPosted on 2004-06-30 at 13:31:32ID: 11440381

I do have one question, but it's not one that relates directly to the above code....

Now that I've got the folder-browsing in place, how can I force the file to download? Basically, I'd like to use CFContent and supply the path directly from the browser URL values, but I have no way of knowing the content type (i.e., "application/msword" or what have you). If I pass an incorrect value, the action page itself, and not the target file, attempts to download. Is there some way to assign a flexible content type without having to hardcode each extension, "if .exe -> application/octet-stream", etc.?

I've tried CFLocation, to no avail. Also, I've tried CFFile action=copy, then meta refreshing the newly-copied file from the current directory, but neither have worked.

Any ideas?

by: Jester_48Posted on 2004-06-30 at 18:02:15ID: 11442366

i am not very familiar with cfcontent, in fact i have only used it once to utput an excel file, sorry but i cant help you with this one

you could use a cfswitch instead of all the if's tho, also see if some one has already created a mime-type check routine

i will look into it but this is really a separate querstion and should be posted to the TA

glad i could help

thanks for the points

by: Jester_48Posted on 2004-06-30 at 18:04:42ID: 11442377

take a look at this

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/WebDevSoftware/ColdFusion/Q_11322957.html

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