php picture listing function?

[mikeymizrahi]

can someone help explain to me how i can write a php script to show a bunch of pictures on a web page-

for example, i have 200 pictures in the folder "pictures"
instead of me having to link each and every photo like this: <img src="/pictures/image1.jpg"> <img src="/pictures/image2.jpg>, etc, etc,
what php function or script can automatically write this for me and show the pictures?

thats what php does afterall, right? dynamic pages!



p.s.-i did this the manual way on this page- [url=http://www.horsebackride.com/jb/photos/shpphotos/shp1.html]http://www.horsebackride.com/jb/photos/shpphotos/shp1.html[/url] and would like to learn the new way to save me a lot of time, and use php to its potential

[drifter]

for($i=1;$i<201;$i++){
echo "<img src='/pictures/image" . $i . ".jpg'>";
}

[mikeymizrahi]

i think i follow, but can you explain that?

[ki]

not sure

$total = "5";

for($asd = 1; $a <= $total; $asd++) {
echo "<img src=\"images/pic".$asd.".jpg\">";
}
not sure if that will work, but you could also try a directory reading but thats not very effective.