User Guide

cflog 227
Usage
This tag logs custom messages to standard or custom log files. You can specify a file for the log
message or send messages to the default application or scheduler log. The log message can include
ColdFusion expressions. Log files must have the suffix .log and must be located in the ColdFusion
log directory.
Log entries are written as comma-delimited lists with these fields:
• type
• coio
• date
• time
• application
• text
Values are enclosed in double quotation marks. If you specify
No for the application attribute,
the corresponding entry in the list is empty.
You can disable
cflog tag execution. For more information, see the ColdFusion Administrator,
Basic Security page.
The following example logs the name of a user that logs on an application. The message is logged
to the file myAppLog.log in the ColdFusion log directory. It includes the date, time, and thread
ID, but not the application name.
<Cflog file="myAppLog" application="No"
text="User #Form.username# logged on.">
For example, if a user enters "Sang Thornfield" in a form’s username field, this entry is added to
the myApplog.log file entry:
"Information","153","02/28/01","14:53:40",,"User Sang Thornfield logged on."