User Guide

738 Chapter 3: ColdFusion Functions
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
Function syntax
WriteOutput(string
)
Parameters
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>
Parameter Description
string A string or a variable that contains one