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Handling CFfile upload 'accept' file type errors |
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I was working on a system recently that allowed a user to upload images onto the server. It was restricted to files types of images, more specifically 'jpeg' and 'gif' files.
This is easily done with the 'accept' parameter, as documented in the ColdFusion documentation:
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3Limits the MIME types to accept. Comma-delimited list. For example, the following code permits JPEG and Microsoft Word file uploads:
4accept = "image/jpg, application/msword"
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6The browser uses the file extension to determine file type.
It is important to note here that it is the browser uses the file extension, so renaming an exe to jpg would fool it entirely.
Issues arise when you don't handle an invalid file upload in a friendly manner. In this case when a user tried to upload an incorrect file type they saw a nasty unformatted error message stating that the request could not be processed as the file was the wrong Mime type.
You cannot tell what the file type is until you attempt to upload it, so wrap your cffile tags in a simple try-catch and handle any errors in the same fashion as you normally would, I.E. by handling the system message and instead displaying a nice, user friendly message that doesn't sound like it was written by robots.
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3<cffile action="upload" destination="#request.uploadPath#" fileField="form.new_image" accept="image/jpeg, image/gif" nameConflict="overwrite">
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5<cfcatch>
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7 <cfset attributes.errors.type = 'error'>
8 <cfset attributes.errors.message = "The type of file you have tried to upload is not allowed, please select a jpg or gif.">
9 <cfset request.continue = false>
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11</cfcatch>
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13</cftry>
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Plesk 10.1.1 release adds ColdFusion 9 support |
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Previously Plesk could only integrate with ColdFusion 8 as it caused instability issues with ColdFusion 9.
There isn't much about this in the release notes, just a simple statement.
The full release notes article is here: http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/PP10/10.1.1/release-notes/parallels-plesk-panel-10.1.1-for-windows-based-os.html
I'm hoping it works well as I've just commissioned a new server running both these software versions.
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Getting Video thumbnails from YouTube |
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There is a demo of this here: http://www.mccran.co.uk/examples/youtube-thumbs/
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Daily Dilbert RIAforge project release 1.0 |
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I'm a great fan of the Dilbert cartoon series, so I've put together a little application to go and get the Daily Dilbert cartoon strip from the Dilbert website.
It's a simply cfc call that will get today's Dilbert cartoon and save it to a path the user has defined and passed in as an argument.
Let me know if you use it, or think of any ways of to extend it.
It is also one of the first tests I was set as a trainee 10+ years ago, so was quite an interesting comparison to write it again.
You can download it from RIAforge here: http://dilbert.riaforge.org/
