Reading pictures in a folder

[cooldude832]

I'm trying to make a simple way to make a dynamic photo gallery function.  This is my idea:

First have a folder called Pics, in pics is a folder for images of different type (the criteria fun,events,nature) then in there I dump the images sorted by types in there with a basic numbering scheme of 01.jpg,02.jpg,03.jpg,04.jpg.  Anyone got any ideas on a way I can read all the pictures in the subfolders and view them without having to give a count of images?

 

[cooldude832]

can i use:

while(file_exists($i.".jpg")
{
echo "<img src=\"".$i.".jpg\"/>";
$i++
}

The basic idea? will this be a fast way?

 

[only one]

yea that should work, it beter to try than ask as some guy always told me (cant remember who but hes a genius)

 

id also recomend storing the info in a database (easy to work with)

but its your choice

[AndyB]

You can read the names into an array simply by using the glob() function.  When you have a lot of images you probably want to display them a few at a time, rather than all together. Knowing how many you have will be useful for paging through them.