ruddie Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Hello, currently, I got myself a site where you have your own profile and your own 'profile image'. I allow people to upload their own image, and checking my folder, it indeed uploads it correctly. Now the issue starts when you try to delete your image, again - when deleted the image is deleted in the folder.. However, when then uploading a NEW image, it simply displays the old one (While the new one is actually in the folder!?) I figured that if you would close the website, and then load it again - it works correctly (figured this means the old image is still loaded in your temp files or something?) Now I was wondering if you could actually somehow *force* the user to re-download this image when you upload a new one. Thanks for your time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Do you rename the file? If so, make sure each file has a unique name. Don't reuse the names from old files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruddie Posted February 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 13, 2011 Ah yes.. I hoped that wasn't needed... Right now I simply named the file the same is the user his username, and changed it every time. However, I figured I can do it differently like giving it a sort of 'random' value, and store this value in my database, where I can then retrieve it from (Although that seems like an awful lot more work) - but if this is the only (or best) way, I'll do it like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Ah yes.. I hoped that wasn't needed... Right now I simply named the file the same is the user his username, and changed it every time. However, I figured I can do it differently like giving it a sort of 'random' value, and store this value in my database, where I can then retrieve it from (Although that seems like an awful lot more work) - but if this is the only (or best) way, I'll do it like this. It's the way I'd do it. a good random value is the user's username or user_id plus the timestamp. Store the new file name in your user table. I'm not good at dealing with cache issues, so this is how I do it. There may be another way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruddie Posted February 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 13, 2011 Okay, well I guess that's got to do it, no that pretty, but it should work just fine. Thanks for your help! And yes, great idea using the id + a timestamp! Thanks for your help, I must say, that was the fastest reply I ever had here lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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