I wrote this in the GFY quick reply box, so who knows if it has errors.
Code:
<?php
define('BASE_DIR', '/var/www/mysite/images/'); // Where are your images?
define('IMAGE_LIMIT', 10); // how many images to show?
$files = glob(BASE_DIR.'*');
$images = Array();
if(empty($files)) {
die("Hey, dude, there are no files. What happened?");
}
foreach($files as $v) {
if(is_dir($v)) {
foreach($files as $v) { // This should be a function which can loop through further sub directories if needed
//get exif image type, if it's an image append to array
$images[] = $v;
}
} else {
$images[] = $v;
}
}
shuffle($images); // Randomise the array
for($i=0;$i<IMAGE_LIMIT;$i++) {
$img = $images[$i];
if(empty($img)) {
break; // Might be best doing a foreach above whilst keeping $i as a loop counter and breaking the loop once you reach the limit
}
$img_src = end(explode("/", $img));
echo "<img src='{$img_src}'/>";
}