Force refresh image on Node after returning to Node page from saving Node Edit

I have the same question.

I think this is more of an apache issue than it is an imagefield_crop issue.

One solution is to append a ?edit_timestamp on the end of the filename if the node since Apache and the browser will interpret that as a new file with new properties. But if that happened it should really happen in imagefield/imagecache.

One solution is to append a ?edit_timestamp on the end of the filename if the node since Apache and the browser will interpret that as a new file with new properties.

We're already doing this in the ImageField formatters on the front-end display and on the back-end administrative thumbnails. As far as I know, ImageField Crop edits and overwrites the original file correct? When it does this, it should update the "files" table with the "timestamp" column, which will automatically have the requested effect on the rest of the site, since ImageField uses this value when displaying images to append a timestamp, as greggles said in #2.

Interesting. The code has:

function imagefield_crop_file_update(&$file) {
  // update admin thumbnail
  imagefield_file_insert($file);

  // flush imagecache
  module_invoke('imagecache', 'image_flush', $file->filepath);

  // update timestamp, see http://drupal.org/node/353405
  $file->timestamp = REQUEST_TIME;
  drupal_write_record('files', $file, 'fid');
}

And #353405: Need help with imagefield_crop 6.x implementation looks like it's been "closed" as of a while ago. So, I guess this issue needs more info to see if it's still valid.

Also, big thanks for the pointers/explanation, quicksketch!

So, I now believe this to be an imagecache issue.

If I use the field display mode of "Image" (on admin/content/node-type/image-node/display) then this problem goes away. But if I use an imagecache preset formatter it does not work properly.

I guess that theme_imagecache_formatter_imagelink and theme_imagecache_formatter_linked could both take advantage of adding a query string with the file timestamp.

@drewish - any thoughts?

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Please reopen if this is still an issue with ImageCache 6.x-2.0-rc1.