Adobe ColdFusion 8

WriteOutput

Description

Appends text to the page-output stream.

This function writes to the page-output stream regardless of conditions established by the cfsetting tag.

Category

Other functions, System functions

Function syntax

WriteOutput(string)

Parameters

Parameter

Description

string

A string or a variable that contains one

Usage

Within the cfquery and cfmail tags, this function does not output to the current page; it writes to the current SQL statement or mail text. Do not use WriteOutput within cfquery and cfmail.

Although you can call this function anywhere within a page, it is most useful inside a cfscript block.

Example

...
<cfscript>
employee = StructNew();
StructInsert(employee, "firstname", FORM.firstname);
StructInsert(employee, "lastname", FORM.lastname);
StructInsert(employee, "email", FORM.email);
StructInsert(employee, "phone", FORM.phone);
StructInsert(employee, "department", FORM.department);
WriteOutput("About to add " & FORM.firstname & " " & FORM.lastname);
</cfscript>