[HotShotPhoto]

ok, so I am creating a Flash site with a dynamic gallery, and am loading the filenames into the swf from a temporary php file that I have created which is pretty much just a list of jpg filenames until I can write a php script that will list the filenames for me. Here is what the temporary php file I am using looks like, and what I need to emulate using script:

PHP Code:

<?php



echo &numoffiles=6& // total number of jpegs in folder

echo &loading=no&    // tells the swf that the php is done loading



echo &img1=images/image1.jpg& //these are the variables that I need to create dynamically

echo &img2=images/image3.jpg&

echo &img3=images/anotherimage.jpg&

echo &img4=images/thenextimeage.jpg&

echo &img5=images/birds.jpg&

echo &img6=images/lalalala.jpg&



?>

You can view the current gallery that works with that at Toddberk.com
This will be my first php script and I have went ahead and read the tutorial of php at http://www.w3schools.com/php/ . What I am looking for is some guidance on how I should go about accomplishing this, and some similiar examples if you could.
after searching for something similar in this forum I assume I will need to use functions like readdir. I don't know how to go about assigning each jpg file to a consecutive variable, or count all the jpgs in a folder. Could someone please let me know all the functions I need to use and how to use them. Everything will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Todd

P.S. hopefully this isn't too confusing, I like to type a lot.

[infinitylimit]

This is a little goofy but you would use a variable variable to make this work. Basically you want all the variable names to be of imgN format, that is where $$ this comes in. A short example http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/robert20000928.php3

PHP Code:

$img = 'img';

$i = 1;

if ($handle = opendir('.')) {

   while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {

       if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {

         $temp = $img . $i;

          $$temp  = $file;  //variable variable will be $img . $i as $img1 or ....

         $temp = null;

         $i++;

       }

   }

   closedir($handle);

} 

That will do what you want as long as there are only image files in the directory.