isPDFObject

Description

Determines whether a value is a PDF object.

Categories

Related

History

ColdFusion 8: Added this function.

Syntax

IsPDFObject(value)

Attributes

AttributeDescriptionRequiredDefault
valueA value, typically the PDF object stored as a variable name.

Returns

True, if the value represents a PDF object. False if the value is any other type of data, such as an integer, string, date, or structure.

Usage

This function returns False for query and XML objects.

Example

<cfpdf source="c:\forms\'uoteform.pdf" action="read" name="myPDFform"/> 
<cfif IsPDFObject(myPDFform)> 
    <cfpdf source=#myPDFform# action="write" destination = "c:\forms\newPDFForm.pdf"> 
<cfelse> 
    This is not a PDF.</p> 
</cfif>