Need A Tiny Mihalism Script Mod

Hello,

To make things simple, I need a small modification to my script, that shows a few random thumbnails like on this index page.

Here is an example for it.

Anyone got any ideas how I can do that?
Thanks in advance...

 

it would be rather easy if you're using a MYSQL database, just append "ORDER BY RAND()" to your query. If you're reading the pictures from a directory you just read all the files into an array and use $image = $array[rand(0, count($array)];

 

Hey thanks for that fast reply.

Would I have to include that in a file or write a new one?
Also, my script opens image with this:
<# UPLOAD_PATH #> and <# FILENAME #>

Not sure if thats from Dir or Database, I think Database.

I'm very inexperienced when it comes down to php and mysql

 

You can try this

$dir = "/file/dir/here/";
$http = "http://www.domain.com/file/dir/here/";
$images = array();
$images_display = 5;

$dh = opendir(w$dir);
while (false !== ($file = readdir($$dh)) {
        if (strpos($file, ".jpg") != FALSE || strpos($file, ".gif") != FALSE || trpos($file, ".png") != FALSE)
            $images[] = $file;
        }
    }
    closedir($handle);

$echoStr = "";

for($i=0;$i < $image_display; $i++)
{
    $ran = rand(0, count($images));
    $file = $http.$images[$ran];
     $echoStr = "<img src='$file'/>";
}

echo $echoStr;

PHP:

 

does anyone know where the above php hack is supposed to be added to? To sql?