Random Picture Generator

[johnh2009]

i apologise for this in advance, i am not very good as yet - working on all the self teaching stuff i can find on ye olde internet

 

My question is this:

 

I have a "newest" news generator on my aikido site, it basically takes the 5 newest "news" item from a database, limits the amount to 5 and outputs the info into a table row like so:

 

<?PHP require 'admin/funktiot.php';
  $yhteys = AvaaTietokanta(); ?>
<table width="1024" border="0" align="center">
  <tr>
    <td id="fontt" align="center">Latest News</td>
  </tr>
</table>

<table width="1024" border="0" align="center">
  <tr valign="top" id="fontp" align="center">
<?php
if (!$kysely = mysql_query("select * FROM news order by id desc LIMIT 5",$yhteys))
{
print "<LI>error on loading news!";
}
else
{
while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($kysely)):
$id = $row[0];
$texti = $row[3];
$shownews = cuttext($texti,200);
$added=$row[6];
$title=$row[2];
$addedby=$row[1];
echo "<td width='20%'><b>". $title ."   </b><br>   ". gmdate('d.m.y',$added) ."<br><br><i>". $shownews ."</i></td>";
endwhile;
}
?>
</tr>
</table>

 

This is the grand extent of my PHP ability, the question i have is how can i do a similar thing but with images form a directory?  not newest as such just 5 random images?  Any advice would be appreciated. Also how would i resize them to fit like 5 thumbnails?  Also how can i make a gallery page with the pictures?  Ive seen sites with links for 1-25 pics then 26-50 etc but i have no idea how to do it?

 

Thank you so much in advance

 

 

John

[johnh2009]

can i add...im very sorry for these questions and please someone say if ive overstepped the boundary of asking for help all the time:S

 

All the help and advice ive recieved here is very much appreciated and i only wish i was in a position to help back

 

You guys are the greatest