<?php
define('BASE_DIR', '/home/user/domains/mysite.com/public_html/script/images/'); // Where are your images?
define('IMAGE_LIMIT', 5); // 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));
    $imgid = basename($img, ".jpg");
    echo "<a href='http://www.mysite.com/id=$imgid'><img src='images/{$img_src}'/></a>";
} 
?>