How to log information from inside

Question

I am learning to use <cfscript>.

Is there any way I can log some messages or values inside the <cfscript>?

like outside <cfscript> I can use <cflog>, Is there any way or Tag something like that, i can use to print the messages in log file inside >

Thanks

Echoing Terry Ryan's comment CF9 has a much more complete cfscript implementation. — kevink, Feb 10 '10 at 13:46
Careful! the Open Blue Dragon ColdFusion implementation doesn't offer cfscript, so if you use it you're tied to Adobe. — O. Jones, Feb 16 '10 at 03:07
@Ollie Jones, no, he is not. He can use Railo, which has full-script CFC support. — Mohamad, Jul 26 '11 at 00:23
@CFUser, given you're getting differing answers for different CFML engines, it might help if you tag this with the correct engine / version? — Adam Cameron, Apr 03 '13 at 23:28

score 24 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 10 '10 at 13:37

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answered Feb 10 '10 at 13:37

Terry Ryan

Knew I'd seen something in CF9... typically couldn't see it when I looked. Thanks for the reminder Terry. – Stephen Moretti Feb 10 '10 at 23:38

isapir · Answer 2 · 2018-08-10T18:56:45.443

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In Lucee/Railo you can use cflog in script by removing the angular brackets and the "cf" prefix, so you can write

<cfscript>
  log text="some text" file="logfilename" type="information";
</cfscript>

this is equivalent to

<cflog text="some text" file="logfilename" type="information">

edited Aug 10 '18 at 18:56

answered Apr 03 '13 at 20:54

isapir

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 04 '13 at 00:42

3

Unfortunately on versions of ColdFusion prior to CF9 there isn't. However, what you can do is map a UDF to cflog:

<cffunction name="doCFLog">
   <cflog attributeCollection="#arguments#">
</cffunction>

inside your cfscript call the doCFLog function with the same attributes as you would cflog

eg. doCFLog(text='sometext', type='warning',application='yes', file='mylog');

Note: its not a good idea to call your methods/udf etc the same name as an existing function or tag, hence not calling the function "cflog" or "log"

edited Apr 04 '13 at 00:42

Adam Cameron

answered Feb 10 '10 at 12:16

Stephen Moretti

Doesn't it have to be: ? – jrduncans Nov 30 '10 at 18:53
It didn't work for me without using # in ColdFusion 8. I'm not sure when/why that format is required, but hopefully it'll help someone else if they had the problem I did... – jrduncans Dec 02 '10 at 22:17
Yeah, the *quotes* are optional, but the pound-signs are required (all versions of ColdFusion, and at least Railo 4.1 and OpenBD 3.0). I've tweaked the code above accordingly. – Adam Cameron Apr 04 '13 at 00:44

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