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Am using coldfusion MX and am very new at it. Am creating a web page and the user insists on a last date modified on the first page. I have gone through every book imaginable to no avail. Can some one please give me the step by step instructions.

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CFDevHead

so lets break it down

First we qury the directory to get a list of all the files in that directory
<cfdirectory action="list" directory="#GetDirectoryFromPath(GetCurrentTemplatePath())#" name="myDir">
second we get the name of the current file
<cfset thisFile=#listlast(GetBaseTemplatePath(),'\')#>

<cfoutput>
thrid we loop through the list of files to see if any of match the current page
<cfloop query="myDir">
<cfif thisfile is name>
#name#-#DATELASTMODIFIED#
</cfif>
</cfloop>
</cfoutput>

PE_CF_DEV

That wil work but it is more overhead. Use the filter value in cfdirectory to get just that file name.

<cfdirectory action="list" directory="#GetDirectoryFromPath(GetCurrentTemplatePath())#" name="myDir" filter="#getfilefrompath(GetCurrentTemplatePath())#">
then just output
<cfoutput>#myDir.name#-#myDir.DATELASTMODIFIED#</cfoutput>

This should just return one result which will allow you to get past having to loop through the entire directory.

for more info on <cfdirectory>:

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/tags-a20.htm