Page needs to be refreshed twice for correct photo to appear

[geniajanssen]

I have a folder called "events" for guest speakers. There is one file there called "guest_pic1.jpg".

Here is what happens:

1. I select a picture from my local disk
2. I hit "submit" and it uploads properly.
3. Picture displays properly when page is reloaded.
4. Now, I select a different picture from my local disk.
5. I hit "submit" and it uploads properly, overwriting the original picture.
6. I now reload the page but the original picture is there, not the new one.
7. However, if I refresh the buffer again, the new picture displays correctly.

Do you know why this is happening?

[brettl]

Sounds like the image is being cached by the browser.

I have a folder called "events" for guest speakers. There is one file there called "guest_pic1.jpg".

Here is what happens:

1. I select a picture from my local disk
2. I hit "submit" and it uploads properly.
3. Picture displays properly when page is reloaded.
4. Now, I select a different picture from my local disk.
5. I hit "submit" and it uploads properly, overwriting the original picture.
6. I now reload the page but the original picture is there, not the new one.
7. However, if I refresh the buffer again, the new picture displays correctly.

Do you know why this is happening?

[recordlovelife]

Try this...

Add this line to your form.

[HTML]<input type="hidden" name="i" value="<?=rand()?>">[/HTML]

now pass "i" into the url. The rand() will generate a random number every time the page is loaded. When it gets passed in the url, the browser will not cache the photo because it will think its a new page because the url keeps changing (thanks to the random int you keep passing).

Hope this helps

[Markus]

Try this...

Add this line to your form.

[HTML]<input type="hidden" name="i" value="<?=rand()?>">[/HTML]

now pass "i" into the url. The rand() will generate a random number every time the page is loaded. When it gets passed in the url, the browser will not cache the photo because it will think its a new page because the url keeps changing (thanks to the random int you keep passing).

Hope this helps

Incase that causes problems:

[HTML]<input type="hidden" name="i" value="<?php echo rand();?>">[/HTML]

:)