How to cffileupload and store file paths in a database?

Question

I'm using CF 9 and have multi-file uploading working. What I need help with is a help desk type page that will display the filenames with links to the files that are uploaded with the form that a user submits. When I view an admin page, I need to see the email form results with a list of the files uploaded and links to where they are.
Any ideas on how I can get an admin page to display only the files associated with each form submission? I'm assuming that I need to find a method of stroring each uploaded file path to a database but I don't know how to do that. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

You could proceed as follows:
1) Create a database table named uploadedFile. The columns could be, for example,
upload_id: INT, autoincrement, primary key
datetimecreated: DATETIME
serverfile: VARCHAR(50)
serverdirectory: VARCHAR(30)
2) Do your multi-upload, for example,
myMultiUploader.cfm
<cffileupload url="myUploadFiles.cfm" width="600" ... etc>
myUploadFiles.cfm
<cffile action = "uploadAll" destination = "c:\myUploads" nameConflict = "overwrite">
<!--- This is where your question gets answered --->   
<!--- All the information about each uploaded file is stored in the cffile structure. ColdFusion creates one cffile struct for each and every file you upload in a single upload round --->
<!--- Save the information about each file to the database. The back slash \ often serves the purpose of an escape character. So I've replaced it with the forward slash / in the file path. --->
<cfquery name="saveUploadInfo" datasource="myDSN">
    insert into uploadedfile (datetimecreated, serverdirectory, serverfile)
    values (#cffile.timecreated#, '#replace(cffile.serverdirectory,"\","/","all")#', '#cffile.serverfile#')
</cfquery>
<!--- You could in fact log (and review) all the upload data by means of the following --->
<!--- <cflog file="uploadData" text="#serializeJson(cffile)#"> --->