Rendering HTML formated Text File in ColdFusion

Hey all,

I have been thrown into a new job at work, our CF developer is gone and I need to pick up his job and I have hit a stumbling block in what I am sure is an easy fix. But until I learn more as I go this has got me stumped.

We have several websites, and at the bottom of of our sites we refrence our other sites. So I have been asked to create a centralized text file that has some html code to display an image that is a link.

How do I render this text file within CF, so far I have this.

<cffunction name="HRefs">
<cfhttp url="http://www.sitename.com/hrefs1.txt" method="get" timeout="60">
<cfreturn #cfhttp.fileContent#>
</cffunction>
<cfoutput>#htmlCodeFormat(HRefs)#</cfoutput>

But all I get at the bottom is this.

cftypicallayout2ecfm1480391653$funcHREFS@1feb75

The text file just contains html code like this.

<a href="http://www.sitename1.com" alt="text1"><img src="_img/sr_tiny.JPG" alt="image alt1" border ="0" /></a>
<a href="http://www.sitename2.com" alt="text2"><img src="_img/sr_tiny.JPG" alt="image alt2" border ="0" /></a>

Any help would be great, even if you just point me to an online tutorial to work my way through this would be great.

Thanks,

 

I believe it would be easier to use the CFFILE tag with the "read" attribute, see here for a description: cfquickdocs DOT com/#cffilee

You can then just display the text with CFOUTPUT.

 

Thanks nerveman,

I followed the instructions within the site that you linked, this is the code I am instructed to use.

<cffile action = "read" file = "http://www.somesite.com/hrefs1.txt" variable = "HRefs">
<cfoutput>#HRefs#</cfoutput>

However this is the error that follows.

Security: The requested template has been denied access to cffile.
The following is the internal exception message: access denied (coldfusion.tagext.GenericTagPermission cffile)

Now I realize what that is telling me, but I am not sure how to fix it.

 

I can access the file by just entering it into my browser and it renders the text as html fine, so I am a little lost as to why the CF page is telling me there is a security problem.

 

this might work

<cfinclude template="http://www.somesite.com/hrefs1.txt">

 

No didn't correct my problem, just introduced another one.

 

Here is the fix to my issue, incase anyone else ever needs it.

<cfhttp url="http://www.somesite.com/hrefs1.txt" timeout="10">
<cfif IsDefined("CFHTTP.FileContent")>
<cfoutput>#CFHTTP.FileContent#</cfoutput>
</cfif>

 

Sorry, was away. Glad you got it sorted.