Easy cross platform and environment file paths

If you or dealing with file or directory manipulation on from CF then you will often need a way to get a file system path. You could just use it as follows:

This is of course very nasty as when you put this onto your live server you may not have farcry installed in c:\ - it may be somewhere completely different (particularly on shared hosting). Alternatively your live server may be a linux box in which case there is no "C:" drive at all.

To solve this and make you applications nice an portable you can use expandPath on a cf mapping. So assuming you have a cf mapping for /farcry to c:/farcry you would use the following:

This will now happily run on any machine that has the farcry mapping and will map to whatever location the mapping points to.

Cheers, Mark