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A nudge in the right direction would be opendir(): <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.opendir.php" rel="ugc">http://php.net/manual/en/function.opendir.php</a><br />
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You can traverse the folder to get the document names and types, separate only the jpg files into an array then do whatever else you want to do. 
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A nudge in the right direction would be opendir(): http://php.net/manual/en/function.opendir.php [http://php.net/manual/en/function.opendir.php]

You can traverse the folder to get the document names and types, separate only the jpg files into an array then do whatever else you want to do.

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just noticed, that should be <br />
$piccount++;<br />
not<br />
$piclist++;<br />
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thanks.
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just noticed, that should be
$piccount++;
not
$piclist++;

thanks.

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I need to count number of images (.jpg) in a folder, sort them by name so I can dynamically create next and previous buttons in a gallery carousel.
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I need to count number of images (.jpg) in a folder, sort them by name so I can dynamically create next and previous buttons in a gallery carousel.

count number of .jpg's in a directory, sort in array to create links

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