Answered Pthumb Image Caching

HI,

I have a gallery image images which are just called in via a collection.
Occasionally I have to update an image within a resource - but when I do this, the cached image (from pthumb) is not removed/updated - it keeps the old image.

I have to manually go in an delete the cached file so that it can create a new one - is there a way round this.

We need the file name to remain the same, which is what i think is causing the problem.

Thanks
Andy

Quote from: sriananda at Feb 05, 2016, 05:44 AM

Quote from: tm2000 at Feb 05, 2016, 04:06 AM

HI,

I have a gallery image images which are just called in via a collection.
Occasionally I have to update an image within a resource - but when I do this, the cached image (from pthumb) is not removed/updated - it keeps the old image.

I have to manually go in an delete the cached file so that it can create a new one - is there a way round this.

We need the file name to remain the same, which is what i think is causing the problem.

Thanks
Andy

Have you tried "clearing the cache" of your site ?

Have you tried changing some system settings under "pthumb" ? There are some settings about caching and image names that you can change.

Thanks - yes I have cleared the site cache under Manger > Clear Cache
I haven't checked any system settings though - I'll see what i can find.

Thanks
Andy

Quote from: sriananda at Feb 05, 2016, 05:44 AM

Quote from: tm2000 at Feb 05, 2016, 04:06 AM

HI,

I have a gallery image images which are just called in via a collection.
Occasionally I have to update an image within a resource - but when I do this, the cached image (from pthumb) is not removed/updated - it keeps the old image.

I have to manually go in an delete the cached file so that it can create a new one - is there a way round this.

We need the file name to remain the same, which is what i think is causing the problem.

Thanks
Andy

Have you tried "clearing the cache" of your site ?

Have you tried changing some system settings under "pthumb" ? There are some settings about caching and image names that you can change.

Thanks for the tip - I found a setting in Pthumb system settings called:
Check file modification time

Which defdaults to No.
Changd to Yes, it checks the time the file was modified and uses that to regenerate the image where need be - worked a treat.

Thanks again for steering me in the right direction!

Andy