I don't think it can be done but i want to ask you all.....

Add an anchor before each image, and if u were using the same page for renaming as for showing like I suggested in there, u could even do a <form action="page.php#photo_number">

Example piece in HTML:

<a id="photo_30">
<form action="pictures.php#photo_30" method="post">
...photo...
<input type="hidden" name="name_orig" value="photo_name" />
<input type="text" name="name_new" value="Add new name here" />
<input type="submit" value="change">
</form>

U see I use photo_30 to reference to that photo. Because u can't use the current photo name, in case u're changing it anyway.
So in your php-loop that shows the photo, just add an increasing number in it.

loop {
      echo "<a id=\"photo_".$id."\">";
      $id++
}

ok that helped thank you i got it to loop the id # to each image. if i view the sorce code of the page it does it right

<form method=\"post\" action=\"data2file.php#photo_"1\"><a id=\"photo_"1"\"><img border=1 src="-1033918356.JPG"></a><br />Enter new name: <input type='text' name='new-name' length='30>

thats from the source code so it"a right but when i click it this is what i get in the address bar. and a error on the page

http://laptop-vm/IDbag/%5C%22data2file.php?new-name=44532234563&file-name=test.jpg&test.jpg=Edit#photo_%22556\%22

<p><h1>
All you have to do if you know the person is type their full name, click edit then move on to the next user. Thank you!
<p></h1>

<?php


$id = 1;

echo '<table><tr><td>';

     $username = $_SESSION['user'];
        $url = $username."./";
        $handle = opendir ($url);
        while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
            if($file != "." && $file != ".." && $file != basename(__FILE__)) {


                   echo'<form method=\"post\" action=\"data2file.php#photo_'.$id.'\">';
                   echo '<a id=\"photo_"'.$id.'"\"><img border=1 src="'.$file.'"></a>';
				   $id++;
                   echo '<br />';

                   echo "Enter new name: <input type='text' name='new-name' length='30'>
                   <textarea type=text size='1' height='1'style='display:none' name='file-name' >".$file."</textarea>";


                   echo "<input type=submit name=\"$file\" value=Edit>" ;
                   print $file;
                   echo '<br>';
                   echo '<hr>';
                   echo "</form>";

            }
        }
echo '</td>';

echo '

</table>';

?>

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<form method=\"post\" action=\"data2file.php#photo_"1\"><a id=\"photo_"1"\"><img border=1 src="-1033918356.JPG"></a><br />Enter new name: <input type='text' name='new-name' length='30>

That doesn't look that good.
if that is source code / a.k.a. HTML then those \ shouldn't be in there at all ;)
I see u type differently than I do. u use ' to echo. In that case u don't need \" but can just use " in there ;)

Also <a id=\"photo_"1"\"> should be <a id="photo_1">
But I don't see that in the php code u showed beneath that.


So what u need to do is remove all the \ from the code I gave u ;)
if you echo with single '

I see u also sometimes echo with " in that case u either need to leave the \ in there, or also echo with just single '

Dit u follow that ? lol

okay, just copy/paste this part, lol:

                   echo'<form method="post" action="data2file.php#photo_'.$id.'">';
                   echo '<a id="photo_'.$id.'"><img border="1" src="'.$file.'"></a>';
                   echo '<br />';
                   echo 'Enter new name: <input type="text" name="new-name" length="30">
                   <textarea type="text" size="1" height="1" style="display: none;" name="file-name">'.$file.'</textarea>';


                   echo '<input type="submit" name="'.$file.'" value="Edit">';
                   print $file;
                   echo '<br>';
                   echo '<hr>';
                   echo '</form>';
                   $id++;

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yep that worked i didn't get any errors but this is the data2file.php that has a redirect in the code to reload the edit.php page and it's doesn't know about the photo_id #. How can i have to remember it ?

<html>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
setTimeout('Redirect()',1000);
function Redirect()
{
  location.href = 'http://laptop-vm/IDbag/edit.php';
}
// --></script>

<?php
echo $_POST['new-name'];
echo '<br>';
echo $_POST['file-name'];



rename($_POST['file-name'], $_POST['new-name'].".jpg");


if (copy("C:/server/xampp/htdocs/IDbag/" .$_POST['new-name'].".jpg","C:/server/xampp/htdocs/IDbag/done/".$_POST['new-name'].".jpg")) {
  unlink($_POST['new-name'].".jpg");
}


echo '<br>';
echo "Successfully!";
?>



</body>
</html>

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thank you