cfcontent

Does either or both of the following:
* Sets the MIME content encoding header for the current page
* Sends the contents of a file from the server as the page
output

  <cfcontent>

 cfcontent();

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cfcontent Attribute Reference

type string

The MIME content type of the page, optionally followed by
a semicolon and the character encoding. By default,
CFML sends pages as text/html content type in
the UTF-8 character encoding.
Values:
  • text/html
  • text/plain
  • application/msword
  • application/msexcel
  • application/poscript
  • application/x-zip-compressed
  • application/pdf
  • application/rtf
  • video/x-msvideo
  • video/quicktime
  • video/x-mpeg2
  • audio/x-pn/realaudio
  • audio/x-mpeg
  • audio/x-waw
  • audio/x-aiff
  • audio/basic
  • image/tiff
  • image/jpeg
  • image/gif
  • image/x-png
  • image/x-photo-cd
  • image/x-MS-bmp
  • image/x-rgb
  • image/x-portable-pixmap
  • image/x-portable-greymap
  • image/x-portablebitmap

deletefile boolean
Default: false

Applies only if you specify a file with the file attribute.

Yes: deletes the file on the server after sending its
contents to the client.
No: leaves the file on the server.
Values:
  • true
  • false

file string

Name of file whose contents will be the page output. When
using CFML in a distributed configuration, the file
attribute must refer to a path on the system on which the
web server runs. When you use this attribute, any other
output on the current CFML page is ignored; only the
contents of the file is sent to the client.

variable string

Name of a ColdFusion MX binary variable whose contents can
be displayed by the browser, such as the contents of a chart
generated by the cfchart tag or a PDF or Excel file
retrieved by a cffile action="readBinary" tag.
When you use this attribute, any other output on the current
CFML page is ignored; only the contents of the file are sent
to the client.

reset boolean
Default: true

The reset and file attributes are mutually exclusive.
If you specify a file, this attribute has no effect.

Yes: discards output that precedes call to cfcontent
No: preserves output that precedes call to cfcontent. In
this case all output is sent with the specified type.
Values:
  • true
  • false

Examples sample code using the cfcontent tag

<cfcontent type="application/vnd.ms-excel" file="c:/temp/acmesales03.xls">
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